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Surrey Hills orchidiot !

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It's not all about the orchids, here's a real stunner, Meadow Clarey.

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A bit of macro work with the lovely Bird's-foot #wildflowerhour

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Many wonderful flowers are minute and this one is no exception, Bird's-foot - Ornithopus perpusillus #wildflowerhour

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Close ups possible with this lovely fly orchid sheltering from the wind.

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@duncan_dine And here is it's Cretan cousin 😃

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@dunnjons @Mariposa_Nature @thenewgalaxy @EuropeanOrchids @BSBIbotany One for Mozza 😉

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@Crane_Spotter Flying towards West, may have dropped onto farm fields

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This year I recorded my final orchid of all UK species, except of course the elusive 👻, the lovely Irish Ladies Tresses, in a perfect Western Isles setting 😀

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A lovely group of Violet Helleborine, surviving in a shady beechwood 🙂

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@duncan_dine Looking forward to seeing more, on my wish list 👍

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@Annakwood @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 Thanks Anna 🙂

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Inspired by @B_Strawbridge great talk including a fascinating insight of the Yellow Lousestrife Bee, I visited my local wet meadow and to my great delight found some young Lousestrife plants and a rather fresh male who posed very nicely for me,  Macropis europae 🙂 @StevenFalk1

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@LewisStuff @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 Thanks Alan 🙂

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@B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 Thanks Brigit 👍

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A great combination of a Median Wasp checking out a lovely Narrow Lipped Helleborine 😊 @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1

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@StevenFalk1 @B_Strawbridge Spot on Steven, some special orchids there too 😊

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Great to find Andrena hattorfiana today enjoying a good scabious year over Surrey chalk downland @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1

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@B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 Thanks Brigit 👍

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@RalphJClark Thanks Ralph 👍

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Delighted to find the lovely, but deadly, Henbane recently, a chalk downland specialist, approach with caution 😱