This afternoon I spotted this Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) on the garden path. 

My first thought was ‘he needs sugar water!’ Then I realised all I needed to do was pick him up and put him with the others that were buzzing around a plant that hangs over the garden fence from next door.

I picked up a feather, one of the doves had left on the lawn and gently got him to crawl onto it.

He happily transitioned to the flowers and fed with the other bees.