Time to get the camera out againAnd spread some joy

[E&MBees]

Lots of Snowdrops, but like The Poot, no bees flying.

 

[Moobee]

Some lovely sunsets over the sea looking towards the Isle of Wight.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Some lovely sunsets over the sea looking towards the Isle of Wight.View attachment 35179

Stunning

 

[Ely]

Not bees but I got the bridge camera out recently for some nature photography.

 

[The Poot]

Love the last one in particular

 

[Erichalfbee]

Not bees but I got the bridge camera out recently for some nature photography.
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Not bees but I got the bridge camera out recently for some nature photography.
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Love this. I do miss them. When I lived in the Lake District you could practically set your calendar clock for their return to their nesting sites.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Love this. I do miss them. When I lived in the Lake District you could practically set your calendar clock for their return to their nesting sites.

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Curlews are really in decline apparently, I haven't seen one around here for years (always a pair or two roding where I have two apiaries now. I remember the last time I was fishing in Ireland - probably about twenty years ago, I spent an afternoon fishing on the banks of Loch Conn and there were clouds of hundreds - if not thousands of curlews

 

[Erichalfbee]

Curlews are really in decline apparently, I haven't seen one around here for years (always a pair or two roding where I have two apiaries now. I remember the last time I was fishing in Ireland - probably about twenty years ago, I spent an afternoon fishing on the banks of Loch Conn and there were clouds of hundreds - if not thousands of curlews

Same with Lapwings. I used to see use flocks of them in the fields as a child

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Same with Lapwings. I used to see use flocks of them in the fields as a child

I remember doing a coast patrol from the Loughor estuary to ferryside during a week of storms, just in case something had washed up, driving from Kidwelly to Llansaint in the landrover, I could see over the hedges and there were fields full of lapwings and curlews huddling in the lee of the hedges sheltering from the storm.
I used to enjoy navigating up the river Orwell to Ipswich, although obviously on a filling tide so a lot of the marshes were flooded, but we once had to drive down from Ipswich on a patrol and just downstream of the Orwell bridge I saw an avocet

 

[enrico]

DONT YOU LOVE SNOWDROPS?

 

[enrico]

Just looking through old photos, quite proud of this one!

 

[The Poot]

Just looking through old photos, quite proud of this one!

Excellent!

 

[Erichalfbee]

OK .......Rubbish image but after three barren years this has brought me so much joy this morning after a difficult forum day yesterday

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[enrico]

OK .......Rubbish image but after three barren years this has brought me so much joy this morning after a difficult forum day yesterday

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All I ever get in mine is jackdaws. I am so jealous

 

[enrico]

Another one

 

[Erichalfbee]

 

[The Poot]

One from me that I hope you like..

 

[Antipodes]

One from me that I hope you like..

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What sort of bird is that?

 

[JamezF]

What sort of bird is that?

It's a Wren, isn't it?

James

 

[Erichalfbee]

What sort of bird is that?

A Goldcrest.