Bees on Lavender

Saturday, 24th July 2004
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary

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hawthorn bushI miss the old ash tree behind Barbara's Mum's, it always made a good subject. Today I have to settle for one of the hawthorns in the old hedge dividing back gardens. The challenge is to make some sense of the overall texture of the foliage. At least the stems give some structure to the squiggles.

Starlings fly in and out in small groups, dividing their foraging time between back gardens and the adjacent playing fields.

I drew this with a Pentel Parallel Pen.


beeTwo kinds of bumblebee are visiting the lavender: a larger, one inch long, bee with an ochre/brown thorax and an ochre/brown/white abdomen and a smaller marmalade-coloured variety which is about half an inch long.


beebee beeThe little 'marmalades' are twice as fast as the larger bees as they visit and check out each flowerhead. Their long proboscis is visible in flight; it reminds me of the long bill of a hummingbird. Next Page


Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk

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