Saturday, March 5

Worrying about the bees ....

... there's not been very many of my little blue banded buddies around this year. Not many bees at all really. We'll continue with our plans to increase our floral output, making the garden more bee friendly, but unless all the neighbours do it too, it may be to no end.
I don't know why people want to live in sterile, tightly formal, flower free gardens, but they do. Around these parts anyway.
But this afternoon, after a little gleeful froggy dance, I spotted a loan boy in a bright blue & black striped jupmer, pootling along from flower to flower. Gathering nectar while he may. The next shots couldn't be called wildly sucessful bee pictures but look how his wings twinkle. I guess they show how, sometimes, Rupert thinks it's more important to focus on the flowers, not the bee. Or the dew on the flower as it happened.Oh, yes, there's a bee in that last one, really.

9 comments:

Pink Granite said...

Hurray for the twinkling wings and the lovely gardeners!
;o)

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Huzzah indeed, you know, I think I may even have cried HUZZAH when I spotted the little bugger :)

cookiecrumb said...

You are the bee queen. There will be a Pixar movie, "The Bee Saver," voiced by the benevolent but sometimes stroppy Jodie Foster's™. I will see it three times in 3-D. (Russell Crowe is not allowed to play poormister if I have any say.)

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Russell Crowe ICK - Mr Brown should be played by the young Robert Redford.

cookiecrumb said...

Oh, really? Is that why I wanted to borrow him?
Heh. Cranky would be played by Colin Firth.

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Cookie, possibly, I'm not sure who'd play the 'older' Mr Brown. Someone suitably craggy :)

O, and Charlie, not if you're Anonymous, no.

e said...

I love it when they pootle. Yay for blue banded bees.

Ms Brown Mouse said...

E - to be accurate they pootle & buzz, pootle & buzz :)

S said...

I'm busy, busy, busy said the bee. I won't be home for tea. it takes hours and hours to visit all the flowers. I'm busy, busy, busy said the bee.