Yellow

For the last two years I have been watching all kinds of birds visit our backyard garden. It is especially eventful when the sunflowers are in bloom. So I had to take a closer look at what makes a sunflower so attractive.









This fly landed just as I was taking the picture. Happy accident or pest?

This is one of Jessica's sunflowers. They were covered in bees. Birds do eat bees. Blue jays like to visit a hive in the early morning looking for the bees that were kicked out by their housekeeping sisters the nigh before. Bees are very clean. If a bee is dead, sick, or born deformed they will kick her out. Thomas and I have also seen birds catch bees in flight.


These were taken last year, but are still my favorite.