This won't last, but for now I am sticking to the garden.
The birding highlight, I suppose, was counting three pairs of
Buzzards circling overhead at around 11.00, with possibly a seventh bird floating in from the south.
The local
House Sparrows are much happier when I am not in the garden.
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| House Sparrow |
No new butterflies appeared, so I was forced to look at bees. I find photographing bees extremely tricky because they are so busy, as they should be.
Red Mason Bees are attracted to the Rosemary outside the kitchen window, and today I also recorded a
Common Carder Bee, and what I suspect was a male
Hairy-footed Flower Bee, although that one wouldn't keep still.
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| Red Mason Bee |
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| Probably a Hairy-footed Flower Bee |
Another familiar garden resident to turn up today was a Dark-edged Bee Fly. This parasitic species is bad news for the local solitary bees, but a very nice looking creature.
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| Dark-edged Bee Fly |
The self-isolating ended when I was obliged to go shopping. Waitrose in Alcester being particularly well organised I thought.
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