Stretching

Technically, it wasn't all that cold today. But it felt cold, and not just to me: extensive trawling of the garden this afternoon harvested just one Hairy-footed Flower Bee, one Buff-tailed Bumblebee, two hoverflies, one weevil, three ladybirds and a lacewing. 

Of this rather poor haul the plumpie was the best, obviously - not least because I couldn't quite work out what he was doing here. For a couple of seconds (which is quite a long time for one of these bees to remain in the same place) he appeared to be pushing against the bud with several of his feet, while leaning backwards - almost as if he'd got his proboscis stuck, and was trying to pull it free. This seemed very unlikely, and clearly can't have happened, because quite suddenly he dipped right down into the flower again and calmly went back to feeding.