The mornings wind and rain lasted into and throughout the afternoon, making for another miserable summers day, and stopped any thought of a patch visit, the only birds I noted today were the KESTREL family, seen as I walked to and from work, plus a CARRION CROW in my garden this afternoon, feeding on an apple, a scarce bird at the feeders ! Thats it for today :-(
Here's the last of the photo's from my blog folder, they were taken yesterday afternoon, anyone want to identify the first insect? looks like a fly posing as a bee :-)
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| Unidentified Fly - Turns out to be a Hoverfly - Volucella Bombylans, thanks to Greenie for the id :-) |
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| Small Skipper |
8 comments:
Warren ,
Yes , another horrible day . Re. your fly posing as a bee , it is infact a hoverfly posing as a bee , Volucella Bombylans .
Can't be as wet tomorrow , can it ?
Cheers Greenie,
I haven't seen this type of hoverfly before here :-)
Excellent image of the Hoverfly Warren..don't see that many pics of flies/bees/wasps do we, I wonder why.
Yep the weather has been pants up here today too Warren. Fortunately I managed to get some sunshine for an hour or so on the patch yesterday!
A hoverfly. Beautiful pic....looks like it likes to bite:)
Hi Warren, It could very easily be confused with a bee!
A dreadful day again here yesterday. The National Trust have said the effect on wildlife is 'almost apocalyptic'!!! I really hope that turns out to be an exaggeration...but already it is known that 90% of Puffins have been lost on Brownsman Island :-(
Apocalyptic, just about sums it up Songbird, especially for the insect feeding birds :-(
Your hover is as Greenie says V. bombylans variety plunata. Keep your eyes peeled for the red tailed bee mimicing V.bombylans var. bombylans probably be(e) around somewhere nearby.
Cheers
Davo
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