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So many Bees this year - brilliant!


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Not so many Greenfly though - on the Onion tops


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A Clouded Yellow Butterfly - first I've seen since being here (13 years)


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Another Bee enjoying the Onion tops


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A young Blackbird pays me a visit![/center]
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Aww.
You are lucky we haven't seen so many bees and only one wasp so far !!
I had one of those butterfly's dead in my conservatory this morning
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I always get wasps when the plums are ripe. This year they were a real nuisance while I was picking the soft fruit. We know where the nest is but can't get at it.

Nice to have a 'wildlife friendly garden' - wasps on the fruit, rabbits, slugs and pigeons eating the greens, rats gnawing the spuds and moles in the lawn.

I rescued a bumble bee and a peacock butterfly that were flapping at the window of the living room and the shed.
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Wonderful photos, Richard!
What is the strange-looking flower the first bee is enjoying?
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rhubarb93 wrote:What is the strange-looking flower the first bee is enjoying?

Scabius???
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Lovely photos Richard )t'
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Some lovely photos, well captured Richard!
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cracking good photos Richard, we have been getting lots of bees on the lavender bush but not honey bees. Poor year for the honey this year though
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Great photos Richard. I especially like the young blackbird and you was so lucky to have him or her come in.
I also love taking photos of wildlife but do find the bees give me a run around, so I feel it is quite an achievement when I get one. You managed to get two, so lucky or very proficient. As depth of field etc is all as it should be, I would say proficient. )t'
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There are so many in the garden, I just focus in on one flower and only have to wait a wee while for one to land

I love them..

I took one of four bees inside a Courgette flower, but the focus wasn't good.

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Great shots Rich

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