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! ☺️❤️

Hi Steve, thanks for organising, I had a fabulous time, learnt so much ☺️👍

Thank you, I will. I spotted I think Early Marsh var Pulchella, a small group earlier this month.. To hear the Nightjar as well as the Heath Fragrant made my weekend!

#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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@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@ukorchids.bsky.social

#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
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@ukorchids.bsky.social

Wow, yes such an amazing blue!!

And earlier this week I went to check out a coastal field of Green Winged Orchids in South Devon and was treated to a beautiful dance of a pair of Orange Tips! I love seeing the bee activity on the Echium’s down here. Fingers crossed it’s a better year for our insects and birds etc 🙂

Hi so I’ve seen the odd Painted Lady (I think on the lanes around me in far west of Cornwall and I saw some lovely Speckled Wood up at RSPB Arne a couple weeks ago, several in fact.

Could be that the warm spring weather is playing a part?

Although so far this year I am getting more screen splat than i did all of last year! Also i am definitely seeing more butterflies in the different gardens i work at.. (I’m in Cornwall btw) and I barely saw any until around August last year.