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Not just wasps! Bees, Hoverflies, Butterflies and flies all also find the stuff irrisistible. TBH so do I. I love brushing past the plants and breathing in that aniseed fragrance.

Under blue sky with clouds white water flows in two streams down the sides of a steep slope into a boulder filled pool below.

#lakedistrict #thelakes #waterfall #coniston
A waterfall toward the upper end of the Copper Mine Valley in the English Lake District

That first feels like it would really carry yet the second I have difficulty detecting at all. Perhaps I just lost more than my 'bat' ears 😊

I think this detailed monitoring of behaviour you take the time to do is how you gradually build up the knowledge needed to piece together what behaviour mean.

Lovely Raven and Buzzard images. I would love to see my own Great White one day. They are around occasionally.

Lucky you, what a delightful sight to see.

Crow taking a chance there! There's quite a size differential.

What a great shot that is!

Sound proverb!
Farmers?

A Magpie bird centre frame left eye looking at camera, perched on old wood, background blurred.

#bird #birds #corvid #magpie
You have to love and admire a Covid for their intelligence and enterprise. This smart Magpie for example. They have a bad reputation as a bird that will attack the eggs and young of other species. They are by no means alone in such activities.

This one is a beauty!

I like the way the dark areas separating the white result in a 3D effect.

I wish, shouldn't do that, time passes fast enough as is without wishing even the miserable grey days of February away 😊. These would have been last summer.

Mr Grumpy!

Orange and black Turnip Sawfly on the yellow flowers of Fennel

A black and yellow solitary wasp on the tiny yellow flowers of Fennel

The black and yellow of a Common Wasp feeding on the yellow flowers of Fennel background blurred.

#insects #wasp #sawfly
Left to right - A Fennel flower providing sustenance to a Turnip Sawfly (Althalia rose).
The solitary wasp Ectemnius sp. Feeding on Fennel.
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) enjoying the fruits of the Fennel flower, well nectar!
There's something in common here 😊

🤗thank you Jen for the lovely comment and repost.

How was your show? Did you end up on stage taking part 😊?

Gulf stream runs past the door 😊.

A group of snowdrops beneath Japanese Acers that have retained the last of their autumn colour. Leaves are scattered on the ground.

#snowdrop #kingstonlacy #japaneseacer
I was attracted by these Japanese Acers with their small rug of snowdrops below, that had somehow, through all the wind and rain, managed to retain some of their leaves all wet and glowing in the sunlight trying to peep through the clouds.

Looks like mayhem but what you are used to probably seems fine!

This looks a bit trunkated 😂😂😂.

That is wonderful! Lucky you to have such a Selkie friend 😊.

Dance theatre? Enjoy.

A garden ornament cherub on a pedestal green grass in front dried grasses behind on the left background evergreen trees in leaf and the spreading crown of a deciduous tree. To the right Kingston Lacy House. A broken cloudy sky above.

#kingstonlacy #countrymansions
Made a 2nd trip to Kingston Lacy for Snowdrops and my eye was caught by 4 cherubs surrounding a bed. With one of them in the foreground I could get the house behind. This is a composite so I can have both cherub and house in focus.

Generous, thanks Jen.

Israel, thank you for not complaining that it made your eyes hurt. I thought it had a hint of the French Impressionist look. Not quite what I was trying for I suspect much more trial and error required.

@scribblejotter.bsky.social thank you for the repost

Thank you.

#summer #bee #bumblebee #knapweed #hardhead #insect #nectarlover
One from last summer to brighten an otherwise dull day. A bumblebee on a Knapweed flower.

Luck or skill it has worked tremendously well.