Bees find a home

A year or so ago we bought this bee home and hung it on the side of the new kitchen.  The wooden tube aims to attract solitary, non swarming bees, such a mason bees,  which these days find it harder to find places to live.  Apparently they are great pollinators!

The home faces east because the bees like to enjoy the warmth of the morning sun.

Nothing much happened last year, and we rather gave up hope.

However, now that the sun has come out, and we are spending more time outside, we have noticed that mason bees have now colonised the home and are flying in and out quite happily.  Nick is busy ordering another tube as I write.