Grass blue

Oh joy! I found a blue banded bee in my garden today! (this obviously isn't it) She was around whenever I went outside and buzzed a bit angrily at me at one point, so I think maybe she is nest building – could be a daughter of the one that nested in my garden last year! I think it's my rosemary, which has just started to flower, that is the attractant (and there is very little else flowering).

However, without my macro lens and with the quite sluggish auto focus on this loaned Nikon, I don't think I'm going to be able to get any decent shots of her – the couple I got today were really bad!