Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

[TallTrees]

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From last year they were Sleeping Beeuties 2018 to

This year 2019  again these little kind and sweet bees have caught me unaware and when I opened

the sleeping box there were a few anxious looking faces!  So up went the boxes sharpish

and they were put on top to feel the fresh air and off they flew ~ they'll be back always

to the same spot they first remember.

These are the boxes facing South in the hot sun.  

This is a box with                                                                                 an emerging bee under the release box top.

Wildlife have no respect for photographers!

[Anonymous]

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@TallTrees wrote:

Cool cat @Anonymous 😻

By contrast I feel sad today as I saw the fox that comes in every night for a jam or peanut sandwich  lying by the side of the road,  I  wondered where she was. Bless her.

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Sorry to hear this @TallTrees ... you must be feeling sad ... is the picture one of yours ?

I've never been close to a fox ... but have an affinity with them, if that's the right thing to say

Yes, bless the vixen 

[Anonymous]

Nature: @TallTrees 

There is a butterfly in my workroom

Something like a Red Admiral ... but ... it isn't a Red Admiral ... will it 'hibernate'

I have lots of ladybirds in both upper rooms overlooking the canal ... feeding off the 'verdigris' on the inside of the windows = can't clean them as hard to get to 

Several moths on the landing where the ceiling meets the walls

[Cleoriff]

It is a very sad story about the fox, though as we have more and more urban foxes, this is something which will happen on a frequent basis.

There is a programme on TV currently called Animals After Dark on Ch 5.(Thursday evenings) Fascinating really. The team have night cameras and we are following the progress of Foxes, Hedgehogs, Badgers, domestic cats, otters, wolves etc. All in the UK.

Lovely programme. Well worth a watch

[Cleoriff]

I see they are doing this in Holland. Covering the top of bus stops with plants to suit bees

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bus-stop-plants-green-roof-bees-holland-utrecht-a899... 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the heads up about the programme on Channel 5 @Cleoriff with a link

Like what you have posted about the bee 'havens' on bus stop shelters with a link

[Cleoriff]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for the heads up about the programme on Channel 5 @Cleoriff with a link

Like what you have posted about the bee 'havens' on bus stop shelters with a link

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This is the link to the Channel 5 Animals After Dark programme @Anonymous 

https://vimeo.com/323487662 

[Anonymous]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for the heads up about the programme on Channel 5 @Cleoriff with a link

Like what you have posted about the bee 'havens' on bus stop shelters with a link

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This is the link to the Channel 5 Animals After Dark programme @Anonymous 

https://vimeo.com/323487662 

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Thank you @Cleoriff at 7pm sometimes I'm wending my way home from my favourite watering home = no, not the canal, and have things to do when I get into the house = tend to rampant cat 

[TallTrees]

Thanks for the mention of the tv programme @Cleoriff I'll look out for it.
Fox: hoping an off spring will pop by. ❤

[Cleoriff]

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@TallTrees wrote:
Thanks for the mention of the tv programme @Cleoriff I'll look out for it.
Fox: hoping an off spring will pop by. ❤

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There has been a vixen who comes into a garden and is feeding her cubs...

[TallTrees]

Looks as if after a while another Fox (probably off-spring) is now coming in.

@Cleoriff 

@Anonymous 

@Mi-Amigo