Making the most of the sunshine I spent the morning with Pam orchid hunting in the Via Gellia. There were plenty of Early Purple and a few Common Spotted Orchids but most of the former were now past their best, but my main target were the rarer species.
In one area I found a good number of Burnt-tip Orchids and nearby, rarest of them all in Derbyshire, just five spikes of the Green-winged.
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| Green-winged Orchid |
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| Burn-tip Orchid |
After some careful searching we also found the striking Fly Orchid but we were perhaps a little early for the Frog Orchid which occurs in similar habitat. |
| Fly Orchid |
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