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. Unfortunately over the latter half of June we have had some very wet weather which made photography a little difficult.Birding has also been very quiet too. However, last week, Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 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 impressive 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. 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.
