April 7th, frosty morning. Close up of alkanet flowers early that morning, speckled on frost crystals.
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#lockdown – sunset, sunrise
Sun disappearing into clouds as it set a couple of days ago, and as it rose again the following morning.
Great tit, a regular visitor to the garden all winter to sample seed in the bird feeders. After three weeks of lockdown, getting bolder like a lot of wildlife.
Cramp balls, coal fungus, King Alfred’s cakes: a distinctive fungus growing on dead and dying trees. These on a trunk, brought down in winter storms some years ago, being allowed to decay naturally on the edge of the wildflower area in Bantock Park.
The hairy red / orange thorax and abdomen of the female tawny mining bees make them easy to identify.
Get their name from excavating their living quarters, preferring soil on south-facing slopes.
Male orange tip butterfly which visited almost every alkanet flower in garden before flying off to investigate other gardens nearby.
Usually a shy butterfly.
Only the males have the orange tips to the wings.