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Bees Are Amazing
Spring of 2022 right up til Christmas Day was so much cooler than normal, so our natives were not flowering as normal, so bird life was quieter and we didn't see the bee activity as normal. Now they start to appear but temperatures are fluctuating at the moment a cold day or 2 then a boiling hot day will come along, but our wildlife adapts. I was reading an article recently in "THE LITTLE BOOK OF BEES" by Hilary Kearney and illustrated by Amy Holliday. I thought I would start this post sharing a little article with you. ...
From Birds to Bees
In Australia we have over 1,700 Australian Native Bees I haven't spotted the Blue Banded Bee to date but we have noticed they don't appear until it is really warm. I can always hear them as they are much loader than our Honeybee. Most of the bees we have on our property are the Honey Bees (see below 4 images) Today I spotted something that looked very small land on a Grevillea flower so quickly changed my lens so I could capture it. It was an Australian Native Bee. Australia has eleven species of the small black Stingless Bee (see...
Red Browed Finch
The bright scarlet bill, eyebrow and rump makes it easy to identify this little bird which is found only down the east coast of Australia and into coastal South Australia. The Juveniles bill is black and it lacks the eyebrow but has a scarlet rump like the adults. They are only 11-11.5cm in size. Similar species is the beautiful Red-eared Firetails which I haven't photographed yet as they are only in a small area in southern Western Australia. Their habitat is grassy clearings in forests, woodlands, coastal scrubs and heaths, mangroves, cane-fields, crops, roadsides, blackberries, lantana, golf courses, orchards, parks...
Bees Are Very Important and Very Precious
My favorite captures this week are the amazing very clever Bees spreading the word about how important they are for our worlds survival They never stop buzzing from flower to flower collecting all the pollen Another important food source for the bees is nectar Bees do an amazing job pollination If we don't stop using pesticides and chemicals and fertilisers our Bee colonies all over the world will be destroyed. If all our Bees die we will not have a world to live in, we will have no trees, flowers, plants, no oxygen to breath, this is just putting it mildly....
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