Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Beat me to it!
Your day's wildlife
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
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- wildlife
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Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Thanks Both. 
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Robins are nosey birds.
There's one that often comes and inspects me when I unload the car at my static caravan.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Their feet are ridiculously big
I was up your way on the bike yesterday.
Quite a few twitchers on NCN 1 between Ashington and Amble.
I had a coffee at the Drift cafe in Cresswell.
They have a whiteboard list of 'Birds spotted this month'.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
The pond just north of the Drift cafe attracts a lot of birds & birdwatchers. There are Avocets there and a Glossy Ibis recently though I didn't manage to see that.
graham bowers
Guru
- Location
- NW Leicestershire
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
At the top of my garden I have a shed with a canopy in front with sides attached. All sorts of rubbish finds it’s way in here and there are several coils of rope hanging. One of these was appropriated by a pair of bluetits as a nest site and they have now fledged and gone. Just realised that the abandoned nest has now been colonised by a bumblebee of some kind. This will take a bit of patient study to find out what kind they are as big and probably solitary is the only clue I have so far.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
That’s a shame. They aren’t known to harm buildings and they are very placid around us humans. Great for pollination of your garden flowers and fruit. Your choice though.
I heard a neighbour's visitor saying how she hated my particularly floriferous honeysuckle. ‘Why ever so?’ Asked my neighbour. ‘Bees! Look at the bloody bees on the damn thing!’
lane
Veteran
I had a bumble bee nest somewhere in our roof or maybe under the eves exactly this time last year. Quite alarming at first as we had some bees constantly buzzing around the nest and didn't now what it was. Took advice, established it is bumble bees, and found they are no problem at all. They have only a small nest with 50 to 200 bees, cause no damage and are good for the environment. I was told they would be gone by August and they were. The ones buzzing round the nest to start with were waiting to try to mate with the queen. Once that happened we didn't really see all that much of them. They would be welcome back. However they apparently never use the same nest two years running.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I know the ones: Little tin hats, and in groups of two or three, they fire live rounds into the air from an upright artillery thingimebob. Blasted nuisance.
