Bee- Day

Common Carder Bee on Sage

White-tailed Bumblebee on Green Alkanet

Bee hunting 

Burnet Campion on Bird's-foot-trefoil

Latticed Heath 

Cinnabar on our planted Yellow Rattle 

Black-tailed Skimmer (First ones out today) 

The Meadowland on the mound is beginning to flower

Joined up today with Bioregional who were taking part in a Bumblebee Conservation Trust survey http://bumblebeeconservation.org/. We had a look round the Horse Field and found quite a few feeding on the flowering plants.

Also quite a few other insects about including some day flying moths and the first dragonflies of the year.

On the bird front (lest we forget what this blog is supposed to be about) I had a Red Kite go south this morning and a Peregrine from the obs, a Hobby in the afternoon and yesterday evening there were about 70 Swifts flying around the lake.