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Headnavigator

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"RARE bee-eaters are breeding on the Isle of Wight for the first time.

The pair of colourful birds have set up home on National Trust land in the sandy hills of the Wydcombe Estate, near Whitwell.

They have become only the third pair of this exotic European bird to breed successfully in Britain in the last century.

The adult birds, with their kaleidoscopic plumage, have been spotted delivering food into the nest, which indicates the eggs have hatched, according to the trust."
From the IWCP website today


Lovely to have something exotic breeding here but they can keep off my hives!
Does anyone have any local experience of living with these beasties?
 
There's a patch of Himalayan Balsam in the field near my hives, quite a few Swallows flitting over them yesterday and over my hives as well. It's a hard life being a bee.
 
Entrance blocks are all in place after watching a few wasps trying to gain access.
 
bee eaters,

headnavigator,
no need to worry about the bee eaters, they also eat a lot of wasps and other flying beasties, ten or fifteen of them visit our hives but not very often, most alarming first time we saw them,
 

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