Normally, to the day, we make an annual pilgrimage to South Cumbria and the Cumbria Wildlife Trust's reserve at Humphrey Head to see the early purple orchids and the green-winged orchids. The fields are normally yellow with buttercups and the trees swathed with hawthorn flowers. Not this year though! It was incredibly dry and there was hardly any evidence of orchids. The early purples were well over - some had become dessicated while in bud, as were the green-winged. There were a few buttercups out and some common rockrose with a little hoary rockrose, but nothing like the usual swathes. I have played around with the light on the photos so it is less bright too!
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| Incredibly dry conditions - two green-winged orchids, a single bloody crane's-bill flower, carline thistle, common rockrose, hawthorn and kidney vetch. |
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| Spot the peregrine, speckled yellow and blackcap. |
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