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Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

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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.  

WP_20190402_13_03_54_Pro (3).jpgWP_20190402_13_49_37_Pro (2).jpgThis is a box with                                                                                 an emerging bee under the release box top.

Wildlife have no respect for photographers!



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TallTrees
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I saw this growing under the bird feeder.... very pretty... left it there ....poisonous but the birds know that and the fox that visits there to suck up the sunflower seeds doesnt give it another look. I removed some. They have a symbiotic relationship with the Silver Birches and There is one very near ..so scientists are right🥰

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Thank you @TallTrees for your photo above  ^   ^   ^

You seem to have a large mature garden ... lovely slight_smile

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Thank you @Anonymous
The garden is mature now and when that happens everything works better.
I took a photo not good because through glass of a group of Gold Finches under the feeder picking up sunflower seeds they are difficult to see they look like the leaves on the ground. You may like this.

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Yes, I can see the goldfinches ... lovely @TallTrees 

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This is how this little mushroom looks today...really opened up.

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2021 February 

Getting ready to set up the Beeutiful Red Mason Bees for their Spring time adventures.

I have cleaned about a thousand bees that have been in the nesting tubes over-winter.

Here they are ~  sleeping beeuties ~ will put them in the release box later above

the nesting tubes hugging

 

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Snapped a bee in one of the crocuses outside the house earlier... 

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TallTrees
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Interesting @pgn
Know what it's not ... but what is it...
It must be a type of Bumblebee.
Too early for Solitary too early for honey bees.


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Is it that time again already @TallTrees I can't wait to see the action!

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It does seem to come round quickly 🙄
@Anonymous
I must have one of the largest semi-wild colonies non-commercial.


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