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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #225 on: April 17, 2009, 07:47:31 AM »
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #226 on: April 19, 2009, 12:29:19 PM »
One of our little Blue Banded Bees investigating a Crocus pulchellus.  Cute little things.  ;D
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #227 on: April 19, 2009, 12:55:42 PM »
Lots of busy bees here too, Paul, now that the wild flowers are are opening but none as cute as your blue banded bee having a drink! :) Are they solitary?
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #228 on: April 19, 2009, 12:57:51 PM »
Yeah, I think so.  They're sort of the equivalent of a bumble bee, in that they tend to be more slow moving and a bit noisier than the honey bees.  Nothing like the size of a bumble though, being only slightly larger than a honey bee.  Also, unlike honey bees they can sting repeatedly, or at least I think so.
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #229 on: April 19, 2009, 01:47:15 PM »
common swifts have now arrived in N Ireland. No flycatchers so far and no cuckoos
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #230 on: April 19, 2009, 08:49:44 PM »
The bee is really cute. Last week as we were sitting in the garden, a sparrowhawk flew by. Looking up, we saw 4 buzzards circling and a kestrel hovering. I was beginning to wonder where the body was.  ::)
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #231 on: April 19, 2009, 09:33:07 PM »
Warm and sunny here today.  A few butterflies around.  At least three peacocks, one small tortoiseshell, a few white butterflies and a male orange tip.  Tried to get some pics but they were a bit too lively.  I may have some reasonable ones of a peacock butterfly but they are still in the camera.
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #232 on: April 19, 2009, 10:33:24 PM »
My goodness Roma. In the late 1970's it would be June before I could find orange tips, and then the nearest ones to Dunblane were in the bog by Ruthven Barracks at Kingussie!
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #233 on: April 20, 2009, 08:04:19 AM »
Anthony, that is a marsh by Ruthven Barracks, not a bog!!!!  ;)
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #234 on: April 20, 2009, 11:42:50 AM »
Quote from: David Shaw on April 20, 2009, 08:04:19 AM
Anthony, that is a marsh by Ruthven Barracks, not a bog!!!!  ;)

The words are interchangeable in my dictionary, but I suppose it would be a marsh as there were marsh marigolds and not bog beans growing there. ::) What ever it is called, it was boggy the day I was there, or was it marshy? ;D
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #235 on: April 20, 2009, 12:51:56 PM »
Anthony, if you aren't sure maybe we can just call it moggy or barshy?  Or should that be maggy or borshy? :-\
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #236 on: April 20, 2009, 01:38:31 PM »
Who called me  bolshie?  :o >:(
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #237 on: April 20, 2009, 01:57:37 PM »
A chiff-chaff nesting in a raspberry/loganberry/boysenberry tangle means that part of the veg garden is off limits for now. 
Just as well I didn't get around to tidying up, yet again ;)
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #238 on: April 20, 2009, 03:26:43 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on April 20, 2009, 01:38:31 PM
Who called me  bolshie?  :o >:(
An interesting word Maggi.
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Re: Wildlife early 2009
« Reply #239 on: April 20, 2009, 06:43:41 PM »
Are you sure Ashley? I would have thought only males are here.
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