Birds and Bees and Butterflies

This weekend both the Blackbirds and the Robins nesting in our garden fledged, and the young ones spent much of the time hopefully following their parents around, expecting to be fed - Andy M.

Female Blackbird diligently gathering food for the fledged young

Hungry young Blackbirds

 Adult Robin on the lookout for food in the lawn below

  Young Robin

 Young Robin

There were very many honeybees and Bumblebees enjoying the lavender and other flowers, so I spent a little time photographing the various types - only to discovery that there were several Tree Bumblebees and Garden Bumblebees in amongst the more readily identified Red- and Buff-tailed Bumblebees.

 Red-tailed Bumblebee

 Red-tailed Bumblebee

 Red-tailed Bumblebee

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

 Garden Bumblebee - with two yellow bands in the centre of the body

 Garden Bumblebee

 Tree Bumblebee - with ginger thorax and white tail

Tree Bumblebee

 Tree Bumblebee

There were several butterflies around the garden too -

 Comma

 Comma

 Comma

 Brimstone

 Small White

Meadow Brown