Burnt tip Orchid Fly Orchid Frog Orchid As I had the week off from University and work commitments, I made a quick trip to Derbyshire to check out a number of Orchid sites. Parking my car not far from the first site near Cromford I was soon climbing the steep hillside to get into the quarry. In the quarry bottom, I found straight the way a good number of Fly and Frog Orchids . Counting the Orchids there must have been thirty Frog Orchids in a small area of the quarry bottom and at least forty Fly Orchids in the surrounding area. As you would expect I took a good number of photos of these good looking Orchids. Although this trip was to look for Orchids, I did note that the quarry had three singing Redstarts, which would have been fantastic for my home county of Leicestershire! Moving up to the higher section of the quarry I found another twenty Fly Orchids, five Frog Orchids and a couple of Common Twayblades. Driving up the hill from the last site, I reached the next site within minut
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I know you can't be asked to go have a look at the Mew Gull but a couple of members of the BBRC,Mr Vinnicombe and Brett Richards have been over!? ;-]
I note that no-one who really knows what they're talking about has come out and said "yes it's definitely a Mew Gull", and on that basis alone you have to suspect that either it isn't one, or they aren't identifiable out of range. Doesn't bode well for it ever being accepted and/or split!