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A rather smart looking Slow-worm in the garden today
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Mendip today A bit of a struggle but eventually found a dozen rather small specimens of Autumn Lady's Tresses
3 months ago
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Epipactis x schulzei
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4 months ago
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Most of the local Broad-leaved Helleborines have failed this year, apart from one site on Mendip where, for some reason, numbers are better than normal.
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4 months ago
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Southern Marsh orchid from a site on Mendip that always produces a couple of plants with pink unmarked lips.
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5 months ago
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Checked on progress at a local Epipactis site today - first two are both E. x schulzei while the third is Violet helleborine. Could only find one Violet showing, which is a bit worrying, hopefully more will emerge shortly.
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5 months ago
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Dactylorhizas at a Mendip site where plants are hard to identify
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5 months ago
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Heath Spotted orchids on Mendip today
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5 months ago
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Some attraactive Common Spotted orchids from Mendip today
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5 months ago
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Lesser Butterfly orchids in good numbers but just past their best Mendip, 20/6/25
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5 months ago
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Anyone able to tell me what the insect on this orchid is, some kind of spider? Mendip 20/6/25
5 months ago
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A few nice white Pyramidal orchids on the outskirts of Bristol today
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5 months ago
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Looks to be a good year for Green-flowered Helleborine locally, I counted 45 this morning. Hopefully a number will flower this year.
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5 months ago
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An oddly mutated Chalk Fragrant where the flower structure changes as you move up the spike.
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5 months ago
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Chalk Fragrants coming along nicely North Somerset
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5 months ago
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Some of the local Marsh helleborines now nearly in full flower. North Somerset 18/6/25
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5 months ago
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This rather attractive pale Common Spotted orchid caught my eye this morning
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5 months ago
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Some attractive local orchids that caught my eye today
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5 months ago
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A Southern Marsh orchid with red flower lips
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5 months ago
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Mendip plants 2/6/25
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6 months ago
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Slow-worm in the garden today
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6 months ago
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Plants on Mendip today; Cheddar Pink Red-tinted Hawkweed (Hieracium angustisquamum) Greater Butterfly orchids
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6 months ago
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The local Heath Spotted orchids are suffering in the dry weather with a lot of the plants stunted. However there are a few nice examples if you look hard enough.
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6 months ago
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Harestail Cottongrass Mendip 090525
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6 months ago
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Early Purple orchids today high above Rock of Ages in the Mendips
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6 months ago
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Still a few nice pale variants of Green-winged orchid appearing locally
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6 months ago
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Local Southern Marsh orchids coming through in good numbers despite the dry ground
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6 months ago
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A few more Heath Spotted orchids appearing amongst the local Green-winged
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A couple of rather attractive pale Early Purple orchids Mendip 2/5/25
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7 months ago
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Todays orchid oddity, and not very photogenic, a Green-winged where the flowers haven't fully rotated into place
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7 months ago
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The first local Heath Spotted orchids coming into flower today NE Somerset, 29/2/25
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7 months ago
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A pair of mutant Early Purple orchids with most of the reproductive bits missing.
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7 months ago
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First few Southern Marsh orchids starting to flower. N Somerset 28/4/25
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7 months ago
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Adders and Adders-tongue today
7 months ago
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A couple of white Green-winged orchids today, one rather weedy and the other with a little purple wash on the hood
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7 months ago
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The birding was a bit slow so I checked out the Green-winged orchids.
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7 months ago
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Early Purple orchids today - these are slightly unusual in that they grow in the open, well away from woodland. North Somerset
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7 months ago
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Alpine Pennycress in flower this morning on Mendip
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7 months ago
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This small stand of white flowered Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis stood out this morning
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7 months ago
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Numbers of Green-winged orchids locally starting to build, and a few of the pastel colours starting to appear.
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7 months ago
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The local Adders have all now changed into their summer clothes.
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8 months ago
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The recent warm weather has brought the local Green-winged orchids along. I found about a dozen showing today
8 months ago
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A few Slow-worms from this morning
8 months ago
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Time to change into your spring clothes. Freshly sloughed male Adder and a Common Lizard in the process of shedding it's skin. Mendip today
8 months ago
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Hutchinsea now in full flower on Mendip. Mind you even in full flower it is still nearly impossible to see!
8 months ago
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First Lizards starting to show today on Mendip
8 months ago
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Hutchinsea just starting to flower on Mendip. The bridge camera, even on macro zoom, struggles with this tiny plant
9 months ago
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Just arrived on Bluesky. Too early for orchids but the Adders just starting to emerge locally.
9 months ago
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