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

VIDEOS OF COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS - DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII

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!

A DAY WITH ORCHIDS: PYRAMIDAL ORCHIDS - ANACAMPTIS PYRAMIDALIS

Well here we go again and this time with very good light!!

Now a whole long sequence of Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, but not all of them I have to try and show how the colour varies ever so slightly. From dark to light and some that look dark but with lighter parts in the tongue that gives the impression of a whitish stripe, or just lighter stripe. Very delicate though and hope it shows in the pictures, lol.

ODD DIMINUTIVE PLANT AND ITS TINY BLUE FLOWERS

Yes very diminutive but very delicate and nice once you are up close and personal.

Oops this belongs in the Day Of Orchids Series?! Whoops!

DO not know what it is called but I put the MACRO setting to the test for this one which I doubt was taller than two inches?!

DOG-ROSE AND END OF THE DAY OF ORCHID SERIES

...well I THINK?!

But there is now a SECOND DAY OR ORCHIDS SERIES!!

LOL!

Right posted this one before but my brother now informs me when I ask that it is a Dog Rose. Or more accurately he looks at me with a puzzled look, like I should know what it is, holds up a branch and says 'look at the branches and leaves?!'

I look at it and then say 'Oh crap, I did not realize that the ROSE in Dog Rose was literally a Rose?! Oh yeah I can see it now!!' LOL!

Well yes I should have realized it belonged to the Rose family, lol.

A VEINED BLUE WILD FLOWER

This is still the DAY OF ORCHIDS series and I forgot to put that in the last few titles so everything I post even if not an Orchid were all shot on the same day, lol.

I will announce the end of the shots for that day in the upcoming title, lol.

No idea what these are but a very nice baby blue veined flower. Visited three days adter this was hot with my brother and has said they were nice and asked what they were. I siad I did not know but totally agreed and told him I had already acquired a couple of shots I will post up.

He did, however, manage to tell me what the next flower is in the following post I have already posted about recently, lol.

THE CUCKOO SPIT

Got a few shots of these things and for those daft enough to take the name literally....NO.....JUST NO!

LOL.

This is a protective.....HOME if you like and is produced by a small insect of which it's name I cannot recall. Looks like a large green aphid but rather squat and flat if memory serves me correctly?!

SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHIDS AT THE WATERSIDE

A few more of the Southern Marsh Orchids while in a rush and knackered....AGAIN!

Just so many of them and want to get as many pictures for enthusiasts to study that I can! Would not mind finding the time myself to study the pictures, lol. Still when I am there things occur to me if I am not too knackered. I should be OK fro, here on in but the flowers will finish soon, lol.

Always a race against time with me, lol. Fingers crossed that NEXT YEAR it will not be like that and I WILL get further afield than this year....MUCH FURTHER AFIELD?!?!

LMAO!

BEE ORCHIDS AT THE GROVE (Part 2)

OOPS!!

Here are more pictures of my original site for Bee Orchids I have often posted pictures of but never in flower until now, lol.

It is fairly shaded for large period of the day so lighting for photography not always great!!

Also there are a series of pictures that I took around 8pm in the evening at this location and I think they will stand out too?! But the point of it all is to log photos of the Orchids at these locations to show how bad or how well they are doing!

I will also in time work out what it is that makes them tick and what encourages them to flourish or to not show up at all! But this is due to the fact that it is NOT just Orchids and the things that are OBVIOUSLY connected to them. No I will notice other things that many will overlook. For instance I noted many things other than Orchids that were doing quite well and realised there was a possible link to the plants and I will get to that at some point. I should have taken more pictures really but I had noted a fair few of these before my brain made the link from it to the Orchids.

Now I will point out that this site for Bee Orchids does not possess what I had noted at the other site!

I will now explain that THIS SITE is absolutely TINY! It is confined to an area from around 3 to 5 square metres!

The other site they are spread over several hundred metres and I still consider that other area to be small, this one is MINISCULE!! There was another patch of them nearby but they have not appeared since I have visited the site and they have not appeared this year but I will keep an eye out for them. I know the EXACT SPOT right down to the square foot they are in because wildlife photographers looking for Dragonflies and Damselflies explained that several years before they see several and pointed at the patch.

One chap on the Internet stated on his site that he had been there about 4 years prior to me finding it and he had seen a single solitary Bee Orchid! He obviously did not know about the other spot nearby and his main objective to being there may not have been the Orchids anyway?!

As for me I have had a real pleasurable time doing this, this year and am over the moon with joy at seeing all these and in good numbers too, even if not the 10,000 Bee Orchids they stated and if they stated there was just a thousand I would ask them what drugs they are on!

This site I would say that they amount to 50 but in close quarters to each other. The site much further away could harbour a couple of hundred and I did a thorough search and I would say I spotted way over 60 plants and I would guess around 80 give or take a couple.

One area had around 40 plus alone on one side of a path I did not expect to see them?! I bumped into a poor soul who himself was passionate about Orchids but was a hay-fever sufferer and had a mask on?! He said he had seen about 50 and he was unaware of the parts I was first seeing them where I had seen over a couple of dozen at least.