Sunday, 8 April 2012

Masonry bees


There are a lot of bees showing great interest in holes in the stone on the front of the house. For the moment I will assume this is the common mason bee Osmia rufa, as I struggle to identify different species of bumblebee let along the 20 species of mason bee found in the UK. If I get a book on them I will do a more precise ID.

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Daffodils


We live very close as the crow flies to Maragaret's Wood, which has a slope down to the road which is currently ablaze with wild daffodils - and a fair few wood anemone as well.