Carpenter bees (Xylocopa) are solitary bees (similar to mason and leafcutter bees), and their excavation efforts involve creating a tunnel to raise their brood. Fortunately, they are exceedingly docile as the males don't sting at all, and you practically have to squish the female between your fingers to elicit a reaction.

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Not friendly but still beautiful sea at Kokkini Chani, Heraklion Crete

We have had a really hot dry summer this year and a lot of my plants have suffered but my geraniums have flowered their little socks off and the Bees have loved it.

I was just passing by, walking along in the village of Oberndorf in Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern). We were complete strangers. But I broke the ice by offering the horses a couple of juicy plums from a tree beyond the electric fence. From that moment on we were the best of friends. I posted one image of these two back in 2018, but I like this one too. [FUJI8598_lr_2000]

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Another friendly robin

Wish you a nice Christmas Day

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When your subject takes a couple steps forward and decides to fold her arms, you know she trusts you. Shortly after she dozed off. Wish every Bobcat would do this. Lol!

This robin was very impressive lol he let me have my own photo shoot that day..

Alpine Lakes Wilderness-Washington State

A 1937 Dodge just outside Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Gatlinburg, TN.

Alberta, July 2018

An Eastern Towhee flaps its wing. I prefer to think it was a friendly wave at this photographer.

Another one from Slebech Park, this time from inside the little church.

This reminded me of a Sesame Street character...lol....he seems to be smiling...and he has a heart shaped piggy nose...so he has to be friendly..!!.....lol

I don't think I have any right to call myself an animal photographer. But today, there was this friendly cat sitting high up on a wall and looking (talking?) to me. I was allowed to touch her/his whiskers and, then, take this shot. Fuji X-E2; the image is heavily cropped.

Beautiful fox who befriended us and lived in our garden, she would sleep next to us in the garden and pop into the kitchen for a treat.

The eco-friendly means of transport between (on) the vessels.

Grey seal in the Treshnish Islands

Man in a box, October 2017

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Capadoccia

Colt in the nature.

Potro en la naturaleza.

Only one of all the Red-backed Shrikes I saw at the Cristei Meadow was brave and friendly enough to approach me.

"Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it."

- Aristotle

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A nice mix of colours go well with the silhouette :-)

Dedicated to CH (ILYWAMHASAM)

Portrait taken at Oulton Broad. Lowestoft. Suffolk.

Kodak Ektar 100 Film ~ Canon AE-1P 50mm f/1.4

La Fortuna, Costa Rica

This friendly Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) was rescued (I believe from a fur farm) and is now housed at the BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

She shares her enclosure with another Red Fox, Raven, who has a unique black and white marble colouring (will upload photos of her later on).