A local Kentish circuit saw me at Marden Meadows KWT reserve at lunchtime today where as I had hoped there was a glorious display of Green Winged Orchids dotted amongst the blazing yellow of Bulbous and Meadow Buttercups.
I wandered amongst them for a while and marvelled at the array
of colour forms from the palest pink through to the deepest purple and noticed
that the whole meadow of orchid spires was tilted towards the sun. I suppose that this happens with all orchids
that can see Sol but I suspect it is the sheer density that makes it obvious
here. I had to resist the urge to straighten
up all my scenery shots!
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| All lean to the right please! |
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| All the above are Green Winged Orchids |
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| Bulbous Buttercup |
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| Bulbous Buttercup with the recurved sepals |
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| Meadow Buttercup |
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| Meadow Buttercup with the flush sepals |
There were many small insects on the wing but
disappointingly absolutely nothing to marvel at or sneak up on bar my first Scorpion
Fly of the year.
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| Scorpion Fly |
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| Tetragnatha sp |
Yellowhammer and Blackcaps sang and a couple of Buzzards
mewed overhead.
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| Hemlock Water-Dropwort |
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| Fresh green English Oak |
Back at home I did a bit of garden tinkering and followed
the late afternoon sunny spots around the garden with my camera recording the
inverts that I found while Blue and Great Tits fed young in their respective
boxes. I have still had no Swifts anywhere as yet.
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| Speckled Wood |
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| Holly Blue |
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| Myathropa florea |
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| Myathropa florea |
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| f Sphaerophoria |
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| f Eupeodes luniger |
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| f Eupeodes luniger |
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| Episyrphus balteatus |
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| Syrphus sp |
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| Platycheirus albimanus - Epistrophe eligans and Helophilus pendulus also seen |
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| Calliphora |
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| Calliphora |
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| Pretty sure I have had this in the garden before - hopefully Phil can help! |
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| Common Carder Bee |
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| m Nomada flava |
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| Common Green Shieldbug |
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| Dock Bug |
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| Almost escaped... |
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