The day improved later in the afternoon so I headed for the overgrown field where I had photographed purple avens in June – I figured that the place should yield some other flowers as well and was secretly hoping for thistles. I got rewarded as there were thistles-a-plenty, with bumblebees busily working on them. I set up shop close to two big thistles so that I could easily point the camera on either one of them depending on which one was getting more of the action. And then all I needed to do was to wait for the customers to arrive and there was hardly a quiet moment! A beautiful butterfly wouldn’t have hurt, but all I got was some small(ish) brown(ish) thing that I can’t find in my bug book – my butterfly identifying skills are infinitely worse than my flower ditto.
I also tried to catch a bumblebee in flight, but I couldn’t quite figure out the trick. When the bees take off to flight, they don’t seem to prepare it in any way so I always missed the moment. This one I caught by accident – I was shooting the other three bees when a fourth arrived. Yes I know the flying one is OOF but I don’t care!