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[British Red]

Not a great photo, but meaningful to us - one of our bees foraging on one of our tulips


Buckfast Bee on Tulip by British Red, on Flickr

Great to see not only the pollen in the leg sacks - but all over her back showing how she pollinates the fruit trees. A nice little milestone in our progress

 

[maddave]

The new Highland Longhorn calves we took delivery of at work today....

 

[British Red]

Awwww babbie hairy coos! Mmmmmm luv dere ickle cloven toesies!

 

[philaw]

This dish is bracken or fern. Chinese people sometimes pick the curly tips of specific varieties and stir fry them, and it tastes distinctive and very nice. Here you can see it with green chilli and pork. Does anyone in Britain know if ours is edible? Has anyone eaten it?

 

[sycamour]

Phew, what a scorcher!

 

[maddave]

Inquisitive baby penguin, Amsterdam Zoo

 

[Turnstone]

From yesterday, out birdwatching. A curlew is chasing a red kite. Cropped the image a little bit, it was hard to get them in a good position within the frame. Glad I got a sharp picture!

 

[daveO]

Both of those last pics are great. Shame the kite's tail isn't flatter so you could see the fork more clearly, it would make the ID of the bird more obvious.

 

[Bumbler]

Here is my back yard...
Excuse the artsy rendition of it. Been spending the weekend fidling with HDR software, Photoshop and ligthroom, and this is the end result so far. I guess next weekend I will learn to not overdo it, lol.

 

[greensurfingbear]

On my way to work this morning


Orric

 

[Niels]

Spider in willow bark:


2013-05-07 09.19.11 by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[Goatboy]

Spider in willow bark:


2013-05-07 09.19.11 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Very good pic Niels, even though I don't like spiders, though orb spiders like that are OK. Should really have warnings for the real phobics lol.

 

[Harvestman]

Lovely spider. Looks like a Larinioides, probably L. cornutus, although there may be continental versions I don't know of. Colour is very variable.

Excellent picture.

 

[British Red]

Some awesome piccs there - especially like the kite / curlew, spider and Bublers snow scene

Mine is bizarre, but again significant to us

This odball looking thing is an "incipient queen cup" - the cell that can be used to create a new queen in a bee colony


Queen cup by British Red, on Flickr

 

[Dave]

Love that big sky.

We saw this yesterday, and thought it looked like an otter holt.

 

[hotchy]

Tree moss...

Nice day today up here.

 

[Shewie]

Sun through Oak

 

[Niels]

That's a good'un for the may picture competition Shewie. Which reminds me I need to take a nice picture for that too.

 

[Mad Mike]

This one took a while. Wish I had made it

Mike

 

[British Red]

Thats awe inspiring Mike!