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Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh dear, poor you.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i noticed when the pinkish variety of horse chestnuts flowered even though i had not been out for days

odd thing, i can sit downwind of one man and his tractor went to mow a meadow with no prob now but some tree pollens are far worse that they were almost 60 yrs ago.

timothy grass was dangeroos when i was 8, now i could snort the stuff

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Looks who's back!


dpack



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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wow, quality mate

buzzy



Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Excellent!

Henry

Shane



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Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Mon May 18, 20 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Was quite happy to land on my hand, fly around the pool, then land again - completed three laps in all before he flew off to explore more of the neighbourhood!

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 20 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lovely. Good picture too.

We all seem to be suffering from some sort of runny nose/cattarhy symptoms this year. We all had something in November/December; thought it was just a nasty cold, but the symptoms seem to have lingered together with a susceptibility to hay fever from tree pollen.

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 20 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



the bees are not fully active here as yet but i recon about 5 "bumble"spp so far and a few others

the bramble is in bud so it should be soon.

in bird town news the sparrow eye make up thing does seem to individualize them, but they are different depending on which side you see them from

if i am not mistaken justin has had a spring moult and still has the four dot thing so it might be constant to the individual

the girls are all different but a simple definitive characteristic is elusive so far

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nice picture Dpack. Our bees are very active here; both bumble and honey. Husband is talking of splitting the hive living outside the kitchen window and relocating to another site in the woods that seems to get the sun more.

We think the bird in the fore end loader, son having got a picture, is a great tit, not a blue tit, and that the female is now sitting on the eggs. We also think that there is a robin in the log deck and another one under the large trailer, but can't see where.

sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 7:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Some great pictures DPack. Love the bee one.

buzzy



Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That bee picture is extra special. Well done dpack.

Interesting about the eye make-up being different from side to side, but apparently stable through moults. You just need twice as many pics to get the full set of ID snaps. As for the girls, it is probably either quite subtle, or glaringly obvious.

Henry

gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I found a bumble bee on the brick path in front of the polytunnel a couple of days ago.
I am wondering what killed it. Lack of food or water?

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

buzzy wrote:
That bee picture is extra special. Well done dpack.

Interesting about the eye make-up being different from side to side, but apparently stable through moults. You just need twice as many pics to get the full set of ID snaps. As for the girls, it is probably either quite subtle, or glaringly obvious.

Henry


i might need to become a foot fetishist with a very specialized interest for the sparrow girls

there probably is a feather pattern thing, they are all different(and similar) but i have not found it yet

buzzy



Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gz wrote:
I found a bumble bee on the brick path in front of the polytunnel a couple of days ago.
I am wondering what killed it. Lack of food or water?


Could be starvation. Or cold. Or parasites.
I assume you have no bombocidal humans roaming you premises?

Henry

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 20 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



this wee thing is one of several that live here, this one and its chum are working their way through the mint aphids

cute snap of it shortly

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