Saturday 10 April 2021

A Few More First Sightings

 Not really up to a long walk, as my knee is a little sore and I feel very tired - az shot reaction? - but I took myself down the park for an hour to see what I might see. 

It ended up being a very worthwhile enterprise despite the fact it was a cool day that went rather grey while I was out. I spotted a skulking chiff chaff in the old oak wood, and a female orange tip butterfly on the flutter, but of course being female she didn't actually have any orange tips.

Didn't manage to get a photograph of them, however. 

What was more amenable to photography, just about, was a chilly tree bumblebee queen trying to regain her strength, a busy common carder bumblebee feeding off flowering currant, and I finally managed to get a snap of a stunning female tawny mining bee, the most beautiful of our bees in my view, as she fed off hawthorn blossom and filled her weighty saddlebags. 

I was supposed to go and have a spot of solitary cricket practice, but today my body is telling me no.

Si

All text and images copyright CrackeredNatureNature 10.04.21










4 comments:

  1. Mighty chilly for bees to be about, and I should think that Chiffchaffs are also wondering why they arrive before most other migrants. I'm sure you'll feel more like cricket when the weather warms up too.

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  2. I have to ask how you do solitary cricket practice?? you must be bowler??
    Seen a good number of Chiffchaff this morning, all showing very well and almost at eye level, also a Willow Warbler skulking alongside the canal tow path.
    Lovely to see the Bees and Butterflies out early (ish). Hope your fitness progresses as the week progresses.

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  3. Nice to hear you, shame about your knees. Beautiful the Bees, they are special.

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  4. Thank you all, I had a net practice last night!

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