Black-headed gull (Title Photo)
Hi lovely people, well with typical brilliance I posted these answers (briefly) on the wrong day, but here they are for real. Who would guess that this simple little quiz would throw up so many varied answers? However, as usual everyone did extremely well. Claire got 21 1/2 out of 32, Sharon got 27 out of 32, but the joint winners this week are Anne and Fran and Bobby Freelove with 30 out of 32. I struggled a little to be fair with the answer to number 12, where both Anne and Fran and Bobby looked at the plant rather than the bee sitting on it :-). As I’d said that there were 8 ‘black’ answers and 8 ‘white’ answers (and for once I hadn’t messed up the count) I decided to disallow the answer of ‘black knapweed’ though I can see exactly why it was chosen. Anyhow, let’s see what’s coming tomorrow. I’m starting to feel in a Christmassy mood, so who knows 🙂
1) Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)
2) Black Bryony (Dioscorea communis)
3) White Admiral (Limenitis arthemis)
4) Black Poplar(Populus nigra)
5) Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
6) White-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
7) Black horehound (Ballota nigra)
8) White dead-nettle (Lamium album)
9) Black tern (Chilidonias nigra)
10) Whitebeam (Sorbus subg. Aria)
11) Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
12) White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
13) Black widow (Latrodectus sp. )
14) White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
15) White stork (Ciconia ciconia)
16) Greater Black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
Photo Credits
Title Photo by Miraceti, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo One by USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Two by Tony Atkin / Black Bryony Berries
Photo Three by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Four from Meath Garden’s black poplar – ‘the most important veteran tree in Tower Hamlets’ — Roman Road LDN (romanroadlondon.com)
Photo Five by By Andreas Trepte – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32563057
Photo Six by Ryanx7, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Seven by Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Eight by Franco Folini from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Nine by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Ten by Matt Brown at Whitebeam | Matt Brown | Flickr
Photo Eleven by Evelyn Simak / Blackthorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa)
Photo Twelve by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Thirteen by Chuck Evans(mcevan)”., CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Fourteen by Henry Mulligan, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Fifteen by Dick Daniels (http://carolinabirds.org/), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Sixteen by Des Colhoun at Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) © Des Colhoun :: Geograph Britain and Ireland
We think you’re a day early, don’t make the week go any quicker than it does 😁
You are absolutely right, I am going to disappear the post :-).
The bumblebee … who would have thought 🙂