Azure Damsel Fly - Coenagrion paella





Flesh Fly - Sarcophagi bercaea



Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsia





Fragrant Orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea








Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina





Round Leaved Sundew - Saxifrage rotundifolia



Large Yellow Underwing Caterpillar - Noctua pronuba





5 Spot Burnet Moth - Zygaena trifolii





Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia




Great Pied Hoverfly - Volucella pellucens

Tag CloudCommonSpottedOrchid, FleshFly, MeadowBrown, LargeYellowUnderwing, WoodSage, AzureDamselFly, 5SpotBurnetMoth, FragrantOrchid

Cotton Grass - Eriophorum angustifolium



Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuschii







Marsh Helleborine - Epipactis palustris










Bog Pimpernel - Anagallis tenella






Marsh Valerian seed heads - Valeriana dioica











Fragrant Orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea






Quaking Grass - Briza maxima



Stretch Spider?



Blunt Flowered Rush - Juncus subnodulosus

Tag CloudCommonSpottedOrchid, MarshHelleborine, FragrantOrchid, MarshValerian, BluntFloweredRush, QuakingGrass, Spider

The picture belies the story of the thousands of orchids upstanding in these three fields.
A delicate overhang tall grass.
A middle layer of Quaking grass
The orchid layer
The ground layer.

and
one very broken
Butterfly Orchid.

Sadly a bit blowy today to take lots of pictures.






Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidal





Fragrant Orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea

Tag CloudFragrantOrchid, PyramidalOrchid, Twayblade, Spider