For the last few years we have been 'graced' by a colony of Honey Bees that like to nest within the outer skin of the building. This tends not to cause us too many problems and we have signs up to let visitors know that they are there. We have not seen too many this year so far so it was a bit of a surprise when a cloud of Honeys numbering thousands got swept past the building in the strong wind. They stopped over the river wall, regrouped and then headed for the building, where they coalesced into a huge ball and then went inside. Barely seen a bee since but the weather has not exactly been what you might call conducive to floating around looking for flowers!
Les took these shots of a similar swarm at the nearby Ingrebourne Valley so they are obviously on the move at the moment.