During the last three weeks, the bees have been very busy in the garden – during the warmer weather, we have had some tremendous bee activity from dawn until dusk. The bees were mainly two species White-tailed Bumble Bee and Carder bee; The former being the traditional bumble bee – yellow and black stripes with a very distinctive white tipped abdomen. Carder bees are much darker with a very distinctive ginger head.
White- tailed Bumble Bees:
Carder Bees:
21st June…. Today I found a massive frog in our little pond so good to see them in the garden, hopefully they will help to keep the slugs down!!
24th June….. it was great to finally catch up with the juvenile White-tailed Sea Eagles that have been frequenting the high moorland near Farndale; however the birds were always to far away to get any photographs.
Despite the half mile distances it was still nice to see these birds – the sheer size of them is very impressive. An added bonus whilst watching the eagles, were a couple of Red Kites, always a pleasure to see – the last local bird was seen back in mid April during lockdown. On the way back from watching the Eagles a very confiding Lapwing posed for pictures ….
At the weekend 27th/28th June along the coast there were unprecedented numbers of Common Swifts moving south, the thinking been, that these birds were immature birds that failed to breed this year; some 40,000 birds were counted a staggering number of birds passing noticeable watchpoints such as Filey, Flamborough and Spurn.
