One Little Bee

Today Niko had the day off, and got to do Niko stuff all day long, which was mostly eat, eat, and eat some more, but I think that suited him just fine, and he seemed to enjoy his day off so that’s good.

But of course this left me with nothing to do but poo picking, as I poo picked the paddock I checked how much water was left in the water buckets, and then I spotted a bee in one, but I wasn’t going to just take it out of the bucket with my bare hand.

So I used the sleeve of my wax coat, over my hand to get it out of the bucket, and here it is looking a bit bedraggled but alive, it quickly started to climb up near to my face, so it was time to take my coat off I think, I left my coat on the ground with the bee on it.

And then all sorts of little critters started to get on my coat, this is just one of them that I got a non blurry photo of, my other photos were to blurry to use, I much preferred the bee it was a lot easier to take photos of.

But in the end I got my coat back, and the little bee made a full recovery. I know that this post hasn’t been very equine focused, but I had a lot of fun photographing this bee so I thought I would do I post about it.

Thanks very much for all of the comments on my last post.

allhorsestuff, sorry to hear about your mares pastern hope she gets better soon. A ride on the beach sounds like a great way to celebrate getting your new saddle, hope you have fun.

Connie, I have ridden Niko bareback in his head collar with lead ropes for reins , and yep it is a lot of fun, you are right riding bareback really does help with balance, it is always nice to spend some time riding bareback, but I still can’t wait till I get may saddle back.

Abby, yes it is very hard to stay in good form when Niko goes fast, oh well I haven’t fallen off him yet, but I will be happy to have my saddle back. As I have never met your friends horse it is difficult to get an idea why he did it, but I have some ideas. First of all was it somewhere he is normally ridden? If not that could be why, he may have just been scared by the new surroundings. Or it could have been the other horse, is he normally ridden with other horses or with that horse? But what I really think it was all about is simply the horses eye, horses see things much quicker then people and from a lot further away, I think that he must of spotted something and it scared him, or he heard something the same applies it scared him. This sounds a lot like a problem I had with Niko at an old yard, when I tried to take him out to the paddock he would get scared of something, and would behave in a similar way to your friends’ horse. But the reason the horse will then be happy to be caught is because he is scared of something else not his handler or rider. Horses as you well know are flight animals and so when you hold on to them when they are scared it can sometimes do more harm than good, because the horse will try to run then the handler or rider stops them and then they misbehave to try and get away from danger. But that is just what I think wow don’t I go on this has got to be my longest reply ever!