End of year favourites - Other birds

i.e. not in the garden.

End of year favourites - Damselflies

Eight different species.  Can you name them all?

End of year favourites - Bees

I started keeping honey bees in 2012 and have since become more and more fascinated by other bees as well.  Honey bees, bumblebees and solitary bees all have very different life cycles and all make a vital contribution to pollination.  I have great plans for photographing bees (especially solitary bees) next year but here are a few pictures from this year.

Incidentally it is difficult to know whether bumblebees should be bumblebees or bumble bees.  Rusty Burlew argues persuasively in favour of bumble bees but the BBCT is the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.  Hmm.

End of year favourites - Fungi

I love the variety of shapes and colours but I don't know the names of most of them.  To be on the safe side I haven't tried eating any.  All were in my garden.