Just to comment that apart from there being another Woodchat Shrike at Llangennith, Gower for the last fortnight, I am fascinated by the prey items in Janet B’s photographs. I am sure the large buff brown and black bumblebee is a queen Common carder bee [Bombus pascuorum] but the larger black bumblebee, also a queen based upon size and time of year, with the reddish tail could be one of three species.
It is hairy enough not to be a cuckoo bumblebee, and probably too early, so it is not the Hill cuckoo bee [Bombus rupestris], and it ought to be the common and widespread Stone bumblebee [Bombus lapidarius] but there is a suggestion when enlarged that it has red hairs on its legs which might make it a Red-shanked carder bee [Bombus ruderarius], which is a S42 species, and which I did not think had been recorded in Ceredigion recently.
Nigel Ajax-Lewis