Fulbourn Fen
Struggling to sort the huge range of orchids on this reserve between Cambridge and Newmarket! Presumably the full range of Common Spotted, EMO and SMO crossovers and maybe Leopard form of SMO too? Any local knowlege welcome!
Been watching the Durlstone website too. Today they comment that no orchids have been seen yet! Obviously things are running a little late! No news from East Kent either!
Eskmeals Cumbria
A friend is staying in the Lake District next week and is interested in the Coaralroot O at the Eskmeals reserve. He appreciates that he may be too early (but who knows this year!) but will visit the site anyway. If anyone can provide directions they would be much appreciated...
Dorset
Spending a few days near Corfe Castle next week. Does anyone have location details for the Bog orchids on the Stoborough Heath NNR near Wareham or any other orchid sites of interest on Purbeck or in E Dorset at this time of year.
Any information would be most welcome, please do PM.
Dear Rafeabrook
I was fortunate to visit Tottenhoe Knolls in the 1960s when students from Monks Wood regularly ran out of record sheets while mapping the huge number of Man Orchids below the castle mound. In recent years I have found the odd Man O there and on the adjacent Quarry reserve but not...
Oxfordshire
Numerous Frog Orchids in the rain today at Aston Rowant but all those I located were still in bud although I'm sure that in better conditions flowering specimens would have be found! A super group of 80+ Greater Butterfly too although most just going over. Bizzarely, still the...
Man O in Bedfordshire probably at their best today. During brief visit to Ivinghoe Beacon could not find any Frog O but possibly still in bud at this rather exposed site, as were most Bee O.
Photography
While struggling across the country this year with an expensive and increasingly heavy CANON kit - SLR, various lenses, tripod etc.. I have been repeatedly embarrassed by the the stunning performance of my wife's £90 LUMIX 'top pocket' compact which frequently out-competes me...
At a private woodland site in the Chilterns there are an incredible 179 Birds Nest orchids in flower. In a space no larger than 12m x 12m they make quite a spectacle.
Interestingly they have 'surfaced' in two distinct rings, roughly 5m across, with a couple of side 'wings', obviously reflecting...
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