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Glynn
@g1ynn.bsky.social
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Plant lover. Landscaping is my work, always outside observing nature, birds, plants, love to swim in the sea and surf when I can. Reside on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. @TimelessToday.tv for wisdom & inspiration (Butterwort pic 🇮🇪Dingle)
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Really enjoying the #dipaday in October campaign run by @sascampaigns.bsky.social for a safer environment in our seas, rivers and waterways, this involves a daily dip be it ocean, river, waterway, plunge pool or even a cold shower!! #ocean #cornwall
Images of coastal Cornwall. My swim locations including Porthgwidden St Ives, Marazion, Abbey Slip and Battery Rocks in Penzance and Bamaluz beach in St Ives
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#Wildflowerhour
Wow, hard to say! Collage shows a group of faves from Cornwall and Ireland and England. Details in the pics.
My absolute fave is an Orchid, the Frog x Common spotted, what a beauty.
#favouriteplant
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My favorite here is Grass of Parnasus, white veined flower, also showing blue Harebells, pink Cranesbill, delicate Ivy leaved Bellflower, Coral Necklace over a lichen covered rock Group of Orchids all favorites. Pinks, whites, reddish pink in a variety of settings, cliff tops, big, dune and grassland. My winner! Dactylorhiza x mixtum. The cross between Common Spotted and Frog orchid, a delicate and tiny pinkish orchid.
September 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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#Wildflowerhour
Prunus spinosus, ready for the plucking by bird, beast, insect or human. At Dartmouth Castle. Fine looking #fruits
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Thorny bush with ripe stone fruit if the Sloe. Dartmouth Castle out of focus in the background. Sloe fruits ripe and ready .
August 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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My local dune system was so dry I didn’t think I would find anything for #Wildflowerhour but here is Common Centaury and those I did find were mostly really dried up. These being the best. I also spotted some Autumn Ladies Tresses too so a good walk was had!
#GentianFamily
#orchidaceae
A very withered plant with pink closed buds White flowered orchid of Autumn Ladies Tresses Almost sunset at Gwithian Towans with St Ives in the distance
August 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Just back home from a road trip in Ireland lovely to see Fragrant and Frog flowering orchids this late on! Plus Ladies Tresses. Such beauty among majestic coasts, mountains, loughs, bogs,fields and also in the people!
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Marsh Fragrant? And Frog orchid. The Fragrant orchid smelt strongly of garden pinks. Intoxicating! Dark Red Helleborine and I think Broad Leaved Helleborine flowering in the gullies of limestone on the Burren Autumn and Irish Ladies Tresses. White flowering beauties
August 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Thank you @bsbiireland.bsky.social lovely to see this many still flowering orchids this late on at the Burren! Also to see in Galway Autumn Ladies Tresses and in Mayo the Irish Ladies Tresses. Among the beauty of wildflowers and among such majesty of vista! A trip to remember but back next year! ☺️❤️
A collage of Frog orchids and possible Marsh Fragrant orchids from the Burren area of Ireland. The pink fragrant orchids smelt strongly of carnations. A collage of Helleborines flowering and finished flowering on the Burren, Ireland. Think the gone over ones are Dark Red Helleborine and the flowering are Broad Leaved Helleborine. All plants growing in the grikes and gullies of the limestone. Showing Autumn Ladies Tresses at their best, spiral white flowers from Galway and also Irish Ladies Tresses almost finished flowering.
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Holidaying around Ireland. Today at the loughs of Mayo in search of Irish Ladies Tresses. For #wildflowerhour found a type of hoverfly on sneezewort and an insect on a lesser water plantain. Grass of Parnasus pic for its beauty too.
#polinatorpals
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A white flowering water plantain and an insect (which I don’t know the name of) A hoverfly on a white flowered Sneezewort Almost finished flowering Irish Ladies Tresses The wonderful flower of Grass of Parnasus. Flower is white with green veins
August 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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#HarebellChallenge
#wildflowerhour
On a chalk downland at #NoarHill surrounded by summer wildflowers and spent orchids going to seed. Nodding Harebells to cheer
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July 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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#swift in a plant pot. Today I was working in a cottage in Newlyn and heard fluttering in the conservatory. I found this plant pot and a trapped swift inside that couldn’t escape. I took the pot onto the balcony and eventually the swift dropped down and flew off. All is ok 👍 #cornwallbirds #birding
A swift trapped inside a plant pot. Once out doors, Swift flew off and is ok.
July 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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#Swallows in a bus stop. Local bus stop near me functions as a bring and borrow book store as well, housing this delightful Swallows nest with three young and an adult. Delightful sight ❤️ #cornwallbirds #birding
A nest of swallows. 3 young and an adult Swallows nest with 4 occupants looking out (1 hiding) in a sheltered bus stop
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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#wildflowerhour #hairyplants #beautifuldemoiselle #beautyeverywhere Here, near Sennen Cove, Cornwall- by the sea lots of Daucus carota subsp. Maritimus or Sea Carrot among them plus tonnes of these Damselfly by the stream.
Sea Carrot on a cliff Sea Carrot on a cliff edge showing hairy peduncle Flowering umbel of Sea Carrot by the sea Beautiful Demoiselle perched on a leaf. A metallic blue damselfly.
July 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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How amazing to go in search of a bird and it it’s call at dusk over the weekend, yet to find an elusive (to me anyways) orchid by chance on the lizard peninsula
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#heathfragrantorchid (I think!) But fragrant it was! Just lovely❤️ Plus I heard the bird☺️
#orchid #lizardpeninsula
Pink orchid that was scented
June 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Walked alongside the Marazion Marshes this early eve & heard Cetti’s & Reed Warbler, saw Linnets, Dunnocks, Herons and Egrets. Here is St Michaels Mount with #pyramidorchid scattered across the Marazion dunes, the garden escape Erigeron glauca has really naturalised along this stretch as well.
June 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
2)From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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Common Twayblade flower Southern Marsh orchid flower Bee orchid flower Heath Spotted orchid in flower
June 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
1) From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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Lesser Butterfly orchid flower Burnt Tip orchid in flower Common spotted orchid in flower Greater butterfly orchid flower
June 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
2)From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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Common Twayblade flower Southern Marsh orchid flower Bee orchid flower Heath Spotted orchid in flower
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
1) From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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@ukorchids.bsky.social
Lesser Butterfly orchid flower Burnt Tip orchid in flower Common spotted orchid in flower Greater butterfly orchid flower
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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#HighUpPlants on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. Early Purple Orchid and Green Winged Orchid. Surviving the salty winds and thin soils. Wonderful day today
#Wildflowerhour
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Early Purple Orchid on a high Cornish cliff top looking awesome in the spring sunshine Green Winged orchid high above the ocean
May 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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2) #wildflowerhour coastal version.. A lovely walk along the coast at Lamorna revealed many a flower in prime performance! Here pics of Sea Campion, Kidney Vetch and Blackthorn with Carn-Du in the distance.
April 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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1) #wildflowerhour #woodlandplants in #Lamorna valley sw Cornwall in a glade of old bulb fields of narcissus and also a solitary iris possibly for cut flower purposes? Plus bluebells and 3 cornered leek and greater stitchwort
April 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I’ve had 3 walks for #NewYearPlantHunt in West Cornwall & found a grand total of 2 different flowering plants!! (Gorse aplenty and 3 Daisies!) I did choose a Carn & 2 extreme coastal locations in Boat Cove, Pendeen and Cape Cornwall. @bsbibotany.bsky.social enjoyed the hunting and stunning views!
January 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Up Chapel Carn Brea near St Just, plenty of gorse #wildflowerhour flowering away #longshipslighthouse in the distance, great sky, awesome colours, the mosses and lichens in particular.
#longshipslighthouse in the distance from atop Chapel Carn Brea
December 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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December 21, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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In #Newlyn a #Brentgoose accompanied by a #Turnstone .. On the other coastline in St Ives, all along the harbour, the Turnstones have grown used to the tourists and locals feeding them and they are most tame! #birds #geese #wader
December 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Saturday at #Porthmeor beach #StIves in the thick of the storm. Absolute carnage out to sea. Hard to stand. Thanks to friend Kev for the clip! As the song goes- What a difference a day makes! #cornwall
December 8, 2024 at 9:31 AM