Showing posts with label bee orchids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bee orchids. Show all posts
Monday, 1 July 2013
A DAY WITH ORCHIDS - BEE ORCHIDS - OPHRYS APIFERA
Some more shots of Bee Orchids along with wider shots and a few panoramic experimental shots.
Sunday, 30 June 2013
A DAY WITH ORCHIDS: BEE ORCHID MASSES
Well here is a whole sequence of Bee Orchid shots I got at a location I have for Pyramidal Orchids I had been visiting for 6 years?!
Never before have I seen a single solitary Bee Orchid?! Not in the last two years have I spotted Pyramidal Orchids either?! Though I have seen them there on two separate years!
When I go back to investigate two days later I end up finding around 70 to 80 Bee Orchids but not the 10,000 that was stated to be there! I bump into a poor chap with a mask on as he was a Hayfever sufferer and also a Wild Orchid enthusiast! First time I have found anyone at this location looking for Wild Orchids!
We have a good chat and he himself states that he had not seen any Bee Orchids for a few years and I tell him I have visited the site for 6 years now and this is the first time I have seen them! He is somewhat surprised at this and we chat about why they fail to appear for a few years and the come out in force as they seem to have done this year.
He tells me of a patch of a dozen he just saw and says he has seen about fifity. But we are on one side of a path I have ner really investigate before and I myself just come from the other side of the path were I had come across a few dozen of them and he was unaware that there were any found there!
After he departs I then go looking for the patch of a dozen Bee Orchids he had mentioned and found another patch of four. Then I stumble across a patch of 32 bloody Orchids and forgot I had seen a patch nearby which meant it was 36 Bee Orchids. Walking back to my bike which was laid down in its side I then realise I had forgotten about another patch a bit further away but where my bike lay. Though about 30 metres away form the large patch that made it 40 Bee Orchid along a 30 metre line!
I had also probably seen another dozen or two in other sections on that side, some I had pointed out to the chap when we first bumped into each other. SO about 65 approximately and I had seen a couple of dozen at least on the other side of the path. Ths chap was unaware there were any located on the other side and so we realised that there were indeed many dozens showing themselves this year.
I actually do now realise it was indeed around 100 Bee Orchids I had seen that day!!
Never before have I seen a single solitary Bee Orchid?! Not in the last two years have I spotted Pyramidal Orchids either?! Though I have seen them there on two separate years!
When I go back to investigate two days later I end up finding around 70 to 80 Bee Orchids but not the 10,000 that was stated to be there! I bump into a poor chap with a mask on as he was a Hayfever sufferer and also a Wild Orchid enthusiast! First time I have found anyone at this location looking for Wild Orchids!
We have a good chat and he himself states that he had not seen any Bee Orchids for a few years and I tell him I have visited the site for 6 years now and this is the first time I have seen them! He is somewhat surprised at this and we chat about why they fail to appear for a few years and the come out in force as they seem to have done this year.
He tells me of a patch of a dozen he just saw and says he has seen about fifity. But we are on one side of a path I have ner really investigate before and I myself just come from the other side of the path were I had come across a few dozen of them and he was unaware that there were any found there!
After he departs I then go looking for the patch of a dozen Bee Orchids he had mentioned and found another patch of four. Then I stumble across a patch of 32 bloody Orchids and forgot I had seen a patch nearby which meant it was 36 Bee Orchids. Walking back to my bike which was laid down in its side I then realise I had forgotten about another patch a bit further away but where my bike lay. Though about 30 metres away form the large patch that made it 40 Bee Orchid along a 30 metre line!
I had also probably seen another dozen or two in other sections on that side, some I had pointed out to the chap when we first bumped into each other. SO about 65 approximately and I had seen a couple of dozen at least on the other side of the path. Ths chap was unaware there were any located on the other side and so we realised that there were indeed many dozens showing themselves this year.
I actually do now realise it was indeed around 100 Bee Orchids I had seen that day!!
BEE ORCHIDS AT THE GROVE
Now first off these Bee Orchids are the ones from the site that I have known about for about 4 years or more but bloody typical the first time I see Bee Orchids in FULL flower ends up being at another site reported to have them.
When I say bloody typical it is because the other site I have visited for about 6 years and is a damn site closer to my home than THIS site and yet I have never seen Bee Orchids there EVER! I had seen Pyramidal Orchids on two separate years of visiting but nothing for the last TWO YEARS!
So I had given up on Bee Orchids being there or they were just in a small area I just could not find, needle in a haystack WOULD BE EASIER!!
Yup, TYPICAL!
Now onto my next snippet of information... you want to keep watching my posts as with very achy and sore leg muscles I did venture back to the Pyramidal Orchid site that now has Spotted and Bee Orchids because it was close and the sun coming out was really bugging me that it would be perfect for more photos and some filming. So out I went!
Now I got a great deal of photos and videos and the videos are uploading to my YouTube account as I type!
I then got a call from my brother and he suggested he pick me up and go to another site as he wanted to see them in flower. YUP, you guessed it I ventured out for a second time to a different area, lol.
Only while we was out I came across something! As my brother is also into nature while out I too him to another site he had never visited, though I wonder if he now realizes he has walked within 50 to 100 meters of it fairly often?!
He was duly impressed with it and mentioned it a couple of times and became quite interested in the details of these Orchids and I answered a tricky question when he asked how you tell them apart as he himself noticed there were many different shades. I was filming while I was answering this question and that one is on my YouTube account with alot of really nice ones on Bee Orchids!
Bare in mind that the light was diminishing and the photos are clear but not as good as normal due to the time of the day!
HOWEVER....while at this site and looking at the various shades I stumbled across something I have not come across before. I did not get a video but I did get some photos and they are clear enough to see alright.
Now to me this was a bit special but in reality I am not sure how special as I am sure there must be others. This should be up within 48 hours so if you are into these British Orchids and like things a bit different I would look out for this post. Oooh and I am sure you will know which one among the dozen or so I am yet to post up, lol. The title should speak for itself.
When I say bloody typical it is because the other site I have visited for about 6 years and is a damn site closer to my home than THIS site and yet I have never seen Bee Orchids there EVER! I had seen Pyramidal Orchids on two separate years of visiting but nothing for the last TWO YEARS!
So I had given up on Bee Orchids being there or they were just in a small area I just could not find, needle in a haystack WOULD BE EASIER!!
Yup, TYPICAL!
Now onto my next snippet of information... you want to keep watching my posts as with very achy and sore leg muscles I did venture back to the Pyramidal Orchid site that now has Spotted and Bee Orchids because it was close and the sun coming out was really bugging me that it would be perfect for more photos and some filming. So out I went!
Now I got a great deal of photos and videos and the videos are uploading to my YouTube account as I type!
I then got a call from my brother and he suggested he pick me up and go to another site as he wanted to see them in flower. YUP, you guessed it I ventured out for a second time to a different area, lol.
Only while we was out I came across something! As my brother is also into nature while out I too him to another site he had never visited, though I wonder if he now realizes he has walked within 50 to 100 meters of it fairly often?!
He was duly impressed with it and mentioned it a couple of times and became quite interested in the details of these Orchids and I answered a tricky question when he asked how you tell them apart as he himself noticed there were many different shades. I was filming while I was answering this question and that one is on my YouTube account with alot of really nice ones on Bee Orchids!
Bare in mind that the light was diminishing and the photos are clear but not as good as normal due to the time of the day!
HOWEVER....while at this site and looking at the various shades I stumbled across something I have not come across before. I did not get a video but I did get some photos and they are clear enough to see alright.
Now to me this was a bit special but in reality I am not sure how special as I am sure there must be others. This should be up within 48 hours so if you are into these British Orchids and like things a bit different I would look out for this post. Oooh and I am sure you will know which one among the dozen or so I am yet to post up, lol. The title should speak for itself.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
BUZZING AROUND THE BEE ORCHIDS - ORCHIS APIFERA
Well these look very close to appearing this year and finally I will get to get some really good shots of these in flower?!
FINGERS CROSSED?!?!
FINGERS CROSSED?!?!
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