F is for First Bee . . . Not!

Actually it's the second, I saw my first flying bee about three weeks ago, even as the weather was closing in for the 'Beast from the East' (and the bloody 'i' ran with 'Snowmageddon', as I had predicted someone would in a post earlier that week - Grace Dent; shame on you!), it was a little black one with an 'international orange' bum, and it shot into a land-drainage pipe, set in a retaining wall outside an office building, so fast I didn't have a chance to photograph it.

This was the first of several today (Saturday 24th March), but it had been shut in the little greenhouse unnoticed, yesterday and was looking a bit weak, so I placed it on the daff' for a feed in the hope it would regain its strength and fly home.

They don't always go down the trumpet, I photographed this one in 2009, and you can see it's made one hole already in the back of the Daffodil, and is busy making another, I believe it had also felled the flower by cutting though the stalk first, in order to have a more stable 'breakfast bowl'? They suck the nectar straight from the reservoir - The vandals!

A Bit Of Colour In The Garden Now !

Primulas and Polyanthus, among my favorites since I was a small boy.

Daffodils and Narcissus, Spring is really sprung, when these are lighting up the lanes and gardens, I have to admit, a couple of these are from last year and won't come out for a week or so!

Other colour in gardens this weekend, the Tulips and Viola's are in Berkshire, the rest are North Hampshire.

Daffodils...

Some of the nicer daffodils currently gracing the garden...




I'll post some of the other shots from this sequence on my Imageshack account later this evening.