Sunday, August 11, 2013
This could be the biggest bee I've ever seen. We get buff-tailed queen bumblebees in the garden and they are said to be around 22mm. The cuckoos that parasitise them are apparently around 21mm, and I believe this is an extra large southern cuckoo bumblebee.
A tractor was harrowing a strip in a harvested field, and this was attracting corvids and gulls. The harrier was sitting in the stubble, presumably waiting for a passing vole. I took the pic from the road.
Otherwise the only notable birds on our walk yesterday were a little bunch of migrant willow warblers in a hawthorn tree. The best thing airborne was a passing Spitfire.
// posted by Christine @ 1:57 AM 
