Yesterday (which, by the time you read this, was actually “last week...”) I was working under a large Mahonia, and I was struck by how many bees there were, buzzing about the flowers, which were - at half past nine in the morning - just thawing out from the early frost:
Typically, every time I tried to get a photo with a bee actually in it, the bee would buzz off before I could get lined up properly, so you'll have to take my word for it, but there were lots of them.
It surprised me, because the sun had barely broken through the morning mist (it was just above freezing), and yet there they were, buzzing around like mad things.
Is it normal to find bees so active in December?....
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