I was already on cloud nine as I'd managed to connect with some migrating Black Terns at a local flooded sand quarry. Then I looked up into the sky and saw two Hobbies catching & eating damselflies. I've never seen so many blue damselflies - they were absolutely everywhere, even all over the tarmac as I walked along the road.
I missed a black tern by a day this week. I did time it right to see a huge flock of godwits, a bittern and two greenshank though. Newport Wetlands was buzzing with those blue damsels too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
For once I managed to get a good close up of a bee using my camera phone, I think it’s a male Early Bumblebee (please correct me if I’m wrong), the second picture shows it’s orange bum 😃 They’re so fluffy close up, beautiful creatures …
Saw a very vivid Red Admiral yesterday resting on some Jasmine flowers. Really strong colours but (as is typical) by the time I'd fetched my camera it had gone.
Fingers crossed it'll be back sometime.
Inherited an amazing garden in Taunton, Somerset, stuffed with wonderful plants, shrubs, trees and creatures
Dunno the species but it is not a male. Male bumblebees only emerge from the nest late in the season to mate with a virgin queen.
It was the correct size for a male of this species and according to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, male Early Bumblebees can be seen as early as April and May, hence the name I suppose!
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Any ideas? Not a Burnet moth I know that.