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[jaypo]

It was all drama here today,one of our feeders has chicken wire around the base,was to stop starlings emptying them but the little birds can still go in through the top,anyway looked out the window and here was a sparrow hawk hanging off the feeder,so we rushed outside thinking it had its foot stuck,but it just let go and hopped onto a branch,we looked at it for a while and it just sat there,went inside and here it was again hanging off the feeder,then I noticed a little bird IN the feeder,it was protected by the chicken wire,rushed outside again and shooed the hawk away,then had to tip the feeder on its side so the tiny little chaffinch could get out. Phew!! NEVER have I seen hawks here before,let alone right at our window 

[CLKD]

Hawk was't going to give up then!

There's been 1 in our front hazelnut tree regularly in recent weeks.

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A robin is singing out side the kitchen window, wren is chattering at the neighbours' kitten 

[jaypo]

Nope ,seen it nearly every day,it hops on to the tree where the feeders are and just watches,blimmin thing. I'm loving watching the agile little birds catching insects in mid air 

[CLKD]

Spotted fly catchers do that, we spent hours watching when we stayed near Hadrian's Wall 

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Two green and red shield bugs getting it together for several hours earlier on our raspberry canes  - gone now ;-) Probably didn't like being watched 

Wren nagging the neighbours' kitten who is hiding in our wooden pergola behind the honeysuckle - hopefully the sparrow hawk doesn't take a detour as it often does! 

[jaypo]

Our sparrow hawk is a regular visitor now,bold as brass sitting on the tree,I'm shooshing it away now

[CLKD]

Probably feeding nestlings.  Kitten is still on the pergola.

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The mason/solitary bees are buzzing round the 'hotels' 

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A HUGE wasp-thingy flew into the lounge this every moment: on closer inspection it's a hornet  .  Hopefully it will find it's way for a drink from our pond 

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Bugga.   We have lots of boxes for lace wings, solitary bees; water for critters; ponds for frogs and dragonflies; we feed meal worms to the birds and 🦔 s. 

Now we have a swarm of bees going into a hole where years ago an over-flow pipe extruded from the wall  .   .  DH has been into the attic to make sure that they haven't got up there, somehow.  Years ago they made a nest in the cavity and had to be destroyed.

I think a wait and watch for 24 hours ......... what we don't want is the cavity filled with repeated bees!  We have a 'bee lady' in the village so will seek advice.

I am SO sad 

[jaypo]

In our last house we had wasps going into a tiny hole on the outside wall of our living room and we could hear them munching away in the evenings 

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Wasps die and the nest remains empty.  I have spent hours over the years watching bees gnawing wood from our sheds for their nests.

Bees will work until the Queen swarms ...... some bees will remain. 

[Taz2]

Sorry about your bee problem. My friend has a colony nesting in a disused chimney each year but they've not been any trouble.

I think that honey bees and bumblebees make their hives and nests from wax so maybe they were carpenter bees you saw chewing wood? They nest in holes in wood?

Taz x