Wildlife photos please

[FB.]

Crows or rooks? What's the saying - if you see a load of crows they are probably rooks and a single rook is probably a crow. Or something like that. I'm never sure when I see them!

Rooks tend to hang around in large groups. Crows are often in ones or twos. Rooks are often a little smaller.

Rooks lack feathers between their beak and their eyes which makes their beak look large and rather ugly (it helps stop their feathers soiling when they're digging in fields). Crows have feathers between beak and eyes.

[Mr Bones]

Rooks tend to hang around in large groups. Crows are often in ones or twos. Rooks are often a little smaller.

Rooks lack feathers between their beak and their eyes which makes their beak look large and rather ugly (it helps stop their feathers soiling when they're digging in fields). Crows have feathers between beak and eyes.

Also rooks wear trousers, crows wear leggings

[veggiechicken]

Ah well, I used the generic name for crows, not to be too specific about what they are. I think most of them are jackdaws. They nest in the chimney pots around here (not mine ) and they're great fun to watch as they bring in twigs, perch on the pot, then disappear. Are they black/grey because they spent so much time down chimneys?

[veggiechicken]

Here they are again - but I still can't tell what they are.

[Sheneval]

Anybody recognise this insect?

[veggiechicken]

Just stood in front of a rose bush for 5 minutes and saw at least 6 different types of bees and hoverflies collecting pollen. Here are a few of them:-

[mothhawk]

Anybody recognise this insect?

It's a four banded longhorn beetle, Leptura quadrifasciata

Leptura quadrifasciata (images of British biodiversity)

[mothhawk]

Have you seen any big bumblebees this year VC? I have lots of smaller bees, but so far I've only seen one of the bombus types, there don't seem to be any about around here.

[veggiechicken]

They're here MH Just wouldn't stay still long enough for a photo

[Sheneval]

MH - Saw quite a few earlier in the year and there were 3 or 4 on one of the bushes in my back garden yesterday afternoon. If they are around tomorrow I'll try and get a picture.

Many thanks for the beetle identification - My friend Jim will be pleased as he says he has never seen one before and he is very knowledgeable about wildlife on the allotment.

[mothhawk]

Lucky you VC. Cherish them. Bumble bees seem to be declining as fast as honey bees.

[veggiechicken]

There are plenty of bumble bees here and in Cardiff but honey bees are few. There's a honey farm a couple of miles from here, within foraging range, and I do see them here, but they're very scarce in Cardiff I do think though, that bumble bees numbers have increased to compensate (maybe just wishful thinking)

[veggiechicken]

Comma butterfly

Don't look if you're eating
This is a Comma butterfly sunbathing on a dog turd I've edited the photo of the underside of the wing so that the Comma can be seen (I hope).

He flew up onto my hand afterwards and sat there for a few seconds before flying off. I'll clear it up now

[Hazel at the Hill]

He flew up onto my hand afterwards and sat there for a few seconds before flying off.

...and then wash your hands!

[PyreneesPlot]

I hope someone will be able to give me a better id of these two

some sort of Burnet

and one of the Fritillary butterflies

(And no poo)