Friday March 5th 2010 : During a work party at The Backwarden EWT Reserve, Danbury today we recorded five Adders sunning themselves on a favoured bank; four females and a male. This is two weeks later than in 2009 and a month overdue compared with 2007 and 2008 but a welcome sign of spring nontheless. No sign of any bees or butterflies yet, though.
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Tue 2nd March 2010 14:37 by Adrian Knowles Bees are back!
The warm weather over the last two days seems to be having an effect. This lunchtime in the gardens of the Essex Wildlife Trust's Headquarters at Abbotts Hall Farm, Gt Wigborough, near Colchester I saw several solitary bees (Andrena bicolor and a probable A. nigroaenea) plus numerous Honeybees. The latter were enjoying the early blossom of Wintersweet Chimonanthus praecox |
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