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.

PYRAMIDAL ORCHIDS in JULY

Again Google cannot locate their own videos nor offer me a selection larger than ten, though I added 50?!

God they should go back to search engines only! What with the other messes they have getting ever bigger, lol.

Pyramidal Orchids in July 2013...

http://youtu.be/ELQp4MUqXEE

http://youtu.be/a2PwiMsT_9g

http://youtu.be/cbX5IScsfjc

http://youtu.be/T3t4ToL-a3Y

http://youtu.be/eauvVWNufi8

EXAMPLE IN VARIATION OF COLOUS ( OF ONE SINGLE SITE) OF DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII

Mind bending amount of shades and patterning and one that has absence of both which is the very last picture of the alba form.

and of course the alba, 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.

VIDEOS of BEE ORCHIDS - OPHRYS APIFERA

A long list of Bee Orchid Videos over on my YouTube account.

GOOGLE ARE BLOODY INCOMPETENT!! LMAO!

Yup, STILL INCOMPETENT as Googles Blogger for some bizarre reason only known to them only presents me with a LIMITED NUMBER of my own videos from THEIR YouTube site from THEIR Blogger site?!

So I click on share on the YouTube account but it sometimes refuses to work and when it does and I copy the link and post it in the standard YouTube videos every now and then it states VIDEO NOT FOUND?!

One of the list of annoying bloody things you have to deal with on here! The uploading section is utterly abyssmal and I could get students fresh from University do a better job and do not even mention Adsense of the Google Affiliate Network?! 

Lost so much time and money because of Google and their ALOOF attitude to their customers!

Anyway here is a link to the video that Google's Blogger thinks does not exist?! Well hopefully the link works but would not surprise me if it does not, lol.

http://youtu.be/Bx2ZoY6UOvY

VIDEOS of PYRAMIDAL ORCHIDS - ANACAMPTIS PYRAMIDALIS

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!!

A DAY WITH ORCHIDS: EXPERIMENTAL WITH PYRAMIDALS

OK a few wider shots and a few experimental shots that are even wider STILL!!

LOL.

Well they are panoramic shots that I want to do more of from now on of they are a hit with viewers of course, lol.

On a bank right next to where I stopped with my old cycling buddy who himself was interested to see the Orchids but they never showed and he never saw them. This was a few feet from where we were hiding from the rain one year, lol.

This shot is a panoramic one that I tested to see if I could have narrower shots and choose where I want the photo to end.

This following shot was mad and came out a bit mad but was not that difficult to do! It also can be stopped at any point or you can just continue and it also allows you to PAN in the four axes, up, down, left and right. As soon as you move in the direction you want the camera knows and presents you with an arrow to guide you to keep steady. GREAT STUFF!!

A good background shot!