Sea Birds, Bees and Wasps!

A trip along the clifftop at Auchmithie, and more insect life in my garden. Friday looks to be the best day of the week, so I may go looking for Butterflies, namely Speckled Wood, Comma and Holly Blue, or it might be a Whimbrel, or Wood Sandpiper...

 

As per usual, I can't guarantee the identification of some of the insects in the photos, all taken with a Nikon D500 and a 500mm lens. I think I'm reaching the limits as I have to stand about 3 metres from the subjects which are moving non-stop.

The sea birds would be better if photographed from the beach looking up, but that's not where they nest. The Whitethroat photo was into the sun and when I walked back both of them had disappeared.

Common Whitethroat

Yellowhammer male at Castlesea Gulley

Razorbills displaying

Mating

Metaphorically having a cigarette

Fulmars quarreling

Shag

Kittiwakes

Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris Queen

Migrant Hoverfly

Orange-tailed Mining Bee 

Red Mason Bee

Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii

Gooden's Nomad Bee

Seven-spot Ladybird

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Spring Epistrophe is the common name, Epistrophe eligans (Latin)

Tree Wasp

Buffish Mining Bee

Early Bumblebee

German Wasp Queen

Tree Bumblebee worker (female)