Docking manoeuvre

Tiny Tuesday - Docking manoeuvre

Not the sort of Spring day that we've been used to in the last week sadly, instead a return to colder windier and wetter weather.  But as it is Tiny Tuesday today I went for a quick safari in the damp garden this evening to see what could be found.  I think it was raining last Tuesday too!

You were saved from a blip of some tulips by my managing to capture the solitary bee that was visiting the pulmonaria.  Now I'm really not very good at identifying the different varieties of bee, as I think I've already demonstrated, so please forgive me if I get this wrong. However, I think that this is probably the female hairy-footed flower bee, or to give it a latin tag anthophora plumipes. I'm not dyslexic, but I really want to read that as "plumpies".  

I love the way that these bees fly towards their target bloom with tongue already extended.  They are ever such quick feeders, darting between flower heads spending only a few seconds on each.  As a result its not too hard to grab a shot of them in flight, if you are prepared to have a few goes at it - although you will need a flash.

I seem to have managed to get a shot onto the popular pages, with the thunder and lightning shot from Sunday.  Not somewhere I'm used to being unless its an anniversary shot, so many thanks indeed to all of you who have starred and favourited it - very much appreciated!