pictures to lift the heart

[maz0]

Bit early in the seasons for wasp attacks but I'm certain this was a queen wasp, she was huge. Was in the hive as I opened up and watched the bees chase her down the frames a couple times until eventually they started balling her.

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What a lucky sight to see in action. Great photo!

 

[enrico]

Amazing shot.....
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[Erichalfbee]

Poppy

 

[enrico]

Ahhhh! A bee with loads of purple fat legs
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[Antipodes]

Not a bee photo but took this when camping in Leatherwood country earlier in the year and hope it is at least calming to the eye. World Heritage area near Lake Pedder. Yes....our swans are black....it is the Antipodes after all! Completely uninhabited.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Not a bee photo but took this when camping in Leatherwood country earlier in the year and hope it is at least calming to the eye. World Heritage area near Lake Pedder. Yes....our swans are black....it is the Antipodes after all! Completely uninhabited.

That's a post card picture, your very lucky to be able to camp in such a location.
Lovely picture.

 

[enrico]

Not a bee photo but took this when camping in Leatherwood country earlier in the year and hope it is at least calming to the eye. World Heritage area near Lake Pedder. Yes....our swans are black....it is the Antipodes after all! Completely uninhabited.

My eye is well calmed! beautiful
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[drdrday]

Yes....our swans are black....

Shouldn't be surprised at that since you lot do everything upside-down! ;-)

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Not a bee photo but took this when camping in Leatherwood country earlier in the year and hope it is at least calming to the eye. World Heritage area near Lake Pedder. Yes....our swans are black....it is the Antipodes after all! Completely uninhabited.

Here's one of our black Cayuga ducks

 

[Antipodes]

terrific Gilberdyke....I've not ever seen one of those before! Lovely sheen.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

terrific Gilberdyke....I've not ever seen one of those before! Lovely sheen.

We hatched some Cayuga eggs from eBay a few years ago and ended up with two drakes One morning I went out in the yard and one was up near the gate to the road. After a bit of herding about and catching I got it back in the duck pen only to realize we now had three black ducks the new one turned out to be female and things carried on from there. No idea where the extra came from. No one in the village keeps Cayugas, they don't fly, so it's been a puzzle ever since that day. Fortunately she produced eggs which with the avid assistance of the drakes were fertile.
Drakes are not fussy about what they mate with and our chickens were often subject to unwanted attention until her arrivaL.
We've incubated eggs since and built up a small flock of laying ducks with a few Drakes. My son sold hatching eggs on eBay for a while until a fox got in and decimated the flock. We are down to just a duck and a Drake now but put a few eggs in the incubator last weekend in the hope of expanding again

 

[Gilberdyke John]

terrific Gilberdyke....I've not ever seen one of those before! Lovely sheen.

This is the boyfriend.

 

[Antipodes]

"We hatched some Cayuga eggs from eBay a few years ago and ended up with two drakes One morning I went out in the yard and one was up near the gate to the road. After a bit of herding about and catching I got it back in the duck pen only to realize we now had three black ducks"


That's funny! Handsome fellow.

Luckily we don't have foxes on our island....yet

 

[E&MBees]

Looked at a bit of the garden this evening and thought, hmm, not bad!

 

[Bear]

Looked at a bit of the garden this evening and thought, hmm, not bad!

Nice colourful picture.

 

[Erichalfbee]

These pictures are lovely. Keep them coming. I might do a BKF calendar out if some. Something to do during the next lockdown

 

[E&MBees]

These pictures are lovely. Keep them coming. I might do a BKF calendar out if some. Something to do during the next lockdown

That would be a lovely idea. I would buy one!

 

[Curly green finger's]

 

[Curly green finger's]

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Sun going down the a few nights ago while walking on the hill.. Looking towards Radnorshire.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Sun going down the a few nights ago while walking on the hill.. Looking towards Radnorshire.

That’s really lovely. Can I borrow the picture!