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Saturday, 03 March 2007

The flight of the bumblebee

Yesterday I saw my first butterflies of the year; today I saw my first bumblebee.

Bumblebee © Roger Butterfield

It was buzzing frenetically around a gorse bush, moving rapidly from flower to flower in search of nectar.

Bumblebee © Roger Butterfield

As you can see, the flowers barely seemed strong enough to take its weight!

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I saw a couple at Old Moor the other week. I think Spring is definitely here.

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