To Bee Or Not To Bee

This strange little creature is a Bee Fly (Bombylius Major) .. a fly that wants to be a bee or a bee that wants to be a fly. You decide.

He was hovering around the flowers in the garden today, so I thought I would get a shot of him. Can't say I had ever seen one before. They had incredible skill in the air, and weren't, in fact, that hard to photograph unlike the hoverfly..

Some rejected shots of it: Bee Fly #2 and Bee Fly #3.

Also a rejected blip of a male blackbird with a beak full.