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spotted this while getting the water to water the tree from adopt a tree thread.
although it seemed to be digging I couldn't see an entrance hole ?
cheers Danny
although it seemed to be digging I couldn't see an entrance hole ?
cheers Danny
Nice photos Mike 
especially catching a grass snake 
That looks like a happy hound and that tree's on the way out with all those fomes erupting.......but what a find
Yes to the *huge* great bees. One came into the kitchen and I felt like ducking
None of the wee tiny bluebottle sized ones yet, and yet there were masses of them last year.
It's been a beautiful day up here
cheers,
Toddy
especially catching a grass snake That looks like a happy hound
and that tree's on the way out with all those fomes erupting.......but what a find Yes to the *huge* great bees. One came into the kitchen and I felt like ducking
None of the wee tiny bluebottle sized ones yet, and yet there were masses of them last year.
It's been a beautiful day up here
cheers,
Toddy
The huge bees are queen bumble bees out looking for nesting sites and gathering pollen for the first batch of workers. The numbers we are seeing indicate that this winters cold weather has suited them and we'll hopefully see their numbers increase further this year.
Nice photos!
Nice photos!
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Pretty well thanks. Cold weather is good for them as they stay together in the hive and don't fly around in mild weather hoping to find food and end up using up their stores. So with that and the sledging it's been a good winter.
QDanT: I'm not 100% sure of this, but the queen you saw might have been gathering mud to make the first few cells to lay eggs in for her workers. I don't think she's capable of producing the wax required for this task. Don't quote me on this, but Red Mason Bees do similar cell construction with mud in their nest tubes. So it's an educated guess.
Al
to Mike for the Grass Snake photos 
, in all my time in the hills I've never seen one, plenty of Adders both young and adult especially basking on bits of rusty corrugated metal roofing sheet around the disused quarries.Thats what I like about Forums though within one post it jumps from Snakes to Bees
Thanks for the info Al the pile of soil was probably the start of a fresh Mole hill as there was lots about and to Rich for the diversion, so Snakes to Bees.
cheers all Danny
, in all my time in the hills I've never seen one, plenty of Adders both young and adult especially basking on bits of rusty corrugated metal roofing sheet around the disused quarries.Thats what I like about Forums though within one post it jumps from Snakes to Bees Thanks for the info Al the pile of soil was probably the start of a fresh Mole hill as there was lots about and to Rich for the diversion, so Snakes to Bees.
cheers all Danny
