Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Hitcham
Taking flowers to the grave at midday I lingered for a while in the first warm sunshine of the year, as did this Peacock butterfly. (Bit of a colour clash with the brickwork there, dear.)
A collared dove loitered on the wall until I walked away, then flew up into the yew tree.
Also in the churchyard were several bumble bees including a very large queen Buff-tailed. At home, at least five Honey bees and three ladybirds were on the winter-flowering heather. These were native ladybirds, not the dastardly foreign Harlequin thingies. Coming over here, eating our aphids.....// posted by Christine @ 3:52 PM 
