I spent a few days camped at Rose’s Reserve near Coolup.  A wonderful little patch of nature complete with a corrugated iron shack, fire pit, pot belly stove and hot shower.  Located on a farm it can be booked for short stays and best of all it is dog friendly.  Liz, the owner has put in an enormous effort planting native trees and shrubs to rehabilitate what was once farmland.  There is a grove of ancient Red Gums, some beautiful flowering Hakeas and Bottle Brush, loads of birds and in the undergrowth moss and tiny mushrooms.  About an hour after sunrise the bright red Bottle Brush flowers were alive with movement.  Silvereyes, Honeyeaters and Bees!  A cloudy but light morning.  Light reflected in all directions by the cloud, my favourite conditions to photograph birds because of the glowing quality the dispersed light brings to subjects.  This is one of those rare images that is virtually straight from the camera.  No cropping, I loved the unplanned composition just very slight adjustment to exposure.  I didn’t notice the bee until I loaded the images on the computer.  The tiny birds seem to give the bees a great deal of respect for bees, almost an unspoken arrangement that bees can have some flowers and birds have the others?