WHAT I DID IN JULY

Well .. I have been doing .. stuff.

Argh .. it is such a pain. I have been up to several things and waiting around for some things to occur so that I could then improve on everything that I do.

Well .. that is the plan and this has already occurred.

Now then .. I was going through some photos and videos for a post, now my next post, when I realised I had already acquired a number of things from some trips that I forgot to post.

I have this memory .. issue, you see?

Anyhoo now I have to process and reduce the pictures for my blog.

These two .. posts may well be the last of this kind before they are .. improved .. somewhat .. yeeaaah that will be an understatement.

I have also developed these really silly and quite unexpected .. psychological issues due to the number of changes about to take place and the fact that it is somewhat .. overwhelming in different ways. Largely due to memory issues I think?

Anyway here are some pictures of wildlife I have managed to get in July ...

And here are some videos ..

I AM BACK! WITH A BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLY

The early start to what I hope to be a busy year?

Well it is going to be a busy year when it comes down to my corruption blog as a humongous great battle that is shocking, heart wrenching and two decades long is about go come to an end in a big way that will act like the catalyst of catalysts to everything I do on a rather big way. In the not too distant future by all accounts.

Still...I have to concentrate on what I started and get some work in!

So here is a Brimstone Butterfly and a few other early Spring, 2015, pictures and videos.

These always gone unnoticed by me until this year...do not aks me what they are called, lol.

A Bee-Fly ... thingey! ...

Few emerging Bee Orchids...

BEE ORCHIDS 2014

Now there did not seem to be many of these about, but I have to go back and double check a few things!

Last year the surrounding plants were a great deal lower than they are this year and I cannot emphasize this enough! So I do not know if I just cannot see the others, which might be why I have not found them previously, or much more likely that the excessive and constant Winter, Spring and early Summer rain has allowed the normal plants to block out the light from the Orchids?

There was one Bee Orchid, shown in one of the videos, which was much taller than the others and all of them were much taller than the ones I saw last year.

Bee Orchids Patch One

A nice example of a Bee Orchid in Patch One

Bee Orchids Patch Two

SHOW US YOUR WINGS, SKIPPER!

A Skipper Butterfly and I was sure there was another butterfly of similar colour but a little bigger?

For those Butterfly enthusiasts into the finer details of said things this other Butterfly had the typical ... bounce in its flight that I did not think Skippers performed? Think of a White or a Brown in flight and it was like that. This was quite close to some Bee Orchids and some Pyramidal Orchids I was filming.

FIRST SPOTTING OF BEE ORCHIDS SITE ONE

Well here I am at Site 1 and sure enough I have now gone two years in a row at seeing Bee Orchids there and yet for 5 years beforehand not a single bloody one?!

Queue Twilight Zone JINGLE!! Lol!

These are my first ones this year and my first PROPER venture out this year two, that I was not both extremely ill and suffering from heartbirn and then throwing up, lol.

BEE ORCHIDS IN JULY 2013 IN GROVE SITE

More of the Ophrys apifera and still in flower.

Pods beginning to form while there are still some flower buds waiting to open.

First time I found this site I do not think there has been many out as I had just missed them flowering and they had swollen pods and I am pretty sure it was at least a month earlier that it is now. The flowers were all dried up when I first saw them and not one even closely resembled a full blown flower. That was about four years ago and found the Marsh Orchids nearby the year before if I recall correctly.

Some of these look like they would still have flowers in a week or twos time?!

BEE ORCHIDS IN JULY 2013 SUNNY SITE

From the site I had given up on having and Bee Orchids. Now July and the Pods are beginning to form.

AN UNUSUAL STRAY BEE ORCHID

Around 100 Metres from a colony of Bee Orchids that comprise an area of 3 square metres is this lone stray Bee Orchid.

I would have been more excited about it were it not for the fact that it appeared roughly where the magic path of Primroses appeared.

Made to look like they are spreading I guess, lol.


http://youtu.be/0RKgRfK28Vo

BEE ORCHID CONUNDRUM MONOLOGUE

Bee Orchids at my first site just after chat with a lady who knows her British Wildlife who agreed with me that whole park was a big con for public cash and swapped notes...MANY NOTES, LOL!

A DAY WITH ORCHIDS - BEE ORCHIDS - OPHRYS APIFERA

Some more shots of Bee Orchids along with wider shots and a few panoramic experimental shots.