Time for another challenge! 
The theme for this month is “Birds, Bees and Butterflies”. Photos can be of actual creatures, carvings, stained glass windows - anything which fits the theme.
The only rules for posting pictures are:
- They must be on the specified theme
- They must be your own pictures.
There are no prizes; this is just for fun. If you don’t take photos yourself, or don’t have anything suitable to post, then please join in by “voting” for your favourite picture(s) using the “like” button.
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To get us started, here is a Red Admiral butterfly:
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Some giant bees from Edinburgh Zoo’s first giant lantern event (December 2017).
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Yellow jacket on a peony. Btw, I’m allergic to bees, I had it zoomed in max to avoid getting stung.
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I’ve never managed to get a decent photo of a bee, because they’re always so stereotypically busy they come out blurred. However, I took this a few minutes ago in our garden:
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This is a very co-operative male Stonechat I encountered a couple of years ago:
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At a Red Kite feeding session a few years ago.
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Grey Heron, on the River Ness in Inverness.
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Flamingos, Edinburgh Zoo.
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From the butterfly house at the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY
An uncooperative bird…
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Do sculptures of birds count? 
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From a local zoo/nature preserve
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A crane across the street from our house…
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Can you find the bird hiding in the bush in front of our house?
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Gee, I wonder if the ducks and geese know they’re going to be fed?
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Last one. A different nature preserve…
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Birds do seem to notice when there might be food around. Another from the Red Kite feeding session, which is a little more organised than I was expecting.
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