With the return of a little sunshine today, after the recent rain, the flowers are smelling very strong for our delicate noses.
With the better weather also come the birds and insects who have been hiding away to avoid getting wet. They are venturing out for food and some exercise, taking full advantage of a little sunshine to dry out.
We have a pair of blackbirds that visit us in the garden everyday for a little apple put out by Mum. They make for good chasing and can often be found flitting between the fence posts as we play chase me around the garden.
A new visitor to the garden today was a small fluffy insecty thing with a very big buzz. For it’s size the noise coming from this beasty was out of proportion and it could be heard the other side of the garden.
The black and yellow fluff ball seemed to visit many of my sniffy flowers as I watched it from my chair in the garden. Some flowers like these carnations it just strolled across the surface of the flower
Whilst some of the bigger flowers
It went right inside and hid from me like magic.
Now I like to know what is going on in my garden and any slight of hand or trickery gets me a little vexed so after a few woofs I saw the buzzy thing move on to a place where I could look closely at it.
As it arrived on the heather bush and started to walk around I could finally take a good look at the thing my mum called a bee. It came up really close and I could see it had a fluffy yellow and black body, stalky things on it’s head and great big flappy things like my ears.
This got me thinking. I am two coloured, fluffy and have big ears – so maybe I am a bee?
Now to learn how to fly….