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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · 10d

Really enjoying the #dipaday in October campaign run by @sascampaigns.bsky.social for a safer environment in our seas, rivers and waterways, this involves a daily dip be it ocean, river, waterway, plunge pool or even a cold shower!! #ocean #cornwall

Images of coastal Cornwall. My swim locations including Porthgwidden St Ives, Marazion, Abbey Slip and Battery Rocks in Penzance and Bamaluz beach in St Ives

Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Sep 14

#Wildflowerhour
Wow, hard to say! Collage shows a group of faves from Cornwall and Ireland and England. Details in the pics.
My absolute fave is an Orchid, the Frog x Common spotted, what a beauty.
#favouriteplant
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My favorite here is Grass of Parnasus, white veined flower, also showing blue Harebells, pink Cranesbill, delicate Ivy leaved Bellflower, Coral Necklace over a lichen covered rock

Group of Orchids all favorites. Pinks, whites, reddish pink in a variety of settings, cliff tops, big, dune and grassland.

My winner! Dactylorhiza x mixtum. The cross between Common Spotted and Frog orchid, a delicate and tiny pinkish orchid.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Aug 31

#Wildflowerhour
Prunus spinosus, ready for the plucking by bird, beast, insect or human. At Dartmouth Castle. Fine looking #fruits
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Thorny bush with ripe stone fruit if the Sloe. Dartmouth Castle out of focus in the background.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Aug 24

My local dune system was so dry I didn’t think I would find anything for #Wildflowerhour but here is Common Centaury and those I did find were mostly really dried up. These being the best. I also spotted some Autumn Ladies Tresses too so a good walk was had!
#GentianFamily
#orchidaceae

A very withered plant with pink closed buds

White flowered orchid of Autumn Ladies Tresses

Almost sunset at Gwithian Towans with St Ives in the distance

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just back home from a road trip in Ireland lovely to see Fragrant and Frog flowering orchids this late on! Plus Ladies Tresses. Such beauty among majestic coasts, mountains, loughs, bogs,fields and also in the people!
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Marsh Fragrant? And Frog orchid. The Fragrant orchid smelt strongly of garden pinks. Intoxicating!

Dark Red Helleborine and I think Broad Leaved Helleborine flowering in the gullies of limestone on the Burren

Autumn and Irish Ladies Tresses. White flowering beauties

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you @bsbiireland.bsky.social lovely to see this many still flowering orchids this late on at the Burren! Also to see in Galway Autumn Ladies Tresses and in Mayo the Irish Ladies Tresses. Among the beauty of wildflowers and among such majesty of vista! A trip to remember but back next year! ☺️❤️

A collage of Frog orchids and possible Marsh Fragrant orchids from the Burren area of Ireland. The pink fragrant orchids smelt strongly of carnations.

A collage of Helleborines flowering and finished flowering on the Burren, Ireland. Think the gone over ones are Dark Red Helleborine and the flowering are Broad Leaved Helleborine. All plants growing in the grikes and gullies of the limestone.

Showing Autumn Ladies Tresses at their best, spiral white flowers from Galway and also Irish Ladies Tresses almost finished flowering.

Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Aug 10

Holidaying around Ireland. Today at the loughs of Mayo in search of Irish Ladies Tresses. For #wildflowerhour found a type of hoverfly on sneezewort and an insect on a lesser water plantain. Grass of Parnasus pic for its beauty too.
#polinatorpals
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A white flowering water plantain and an insect (which I don’t know the name of)

A hoverfly on a white flowered Sneezewort

Almost finished flowering Irish Ladies Tresses

The wonderful flower of Grass of Parnasus. Flower is white with green veins

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jul 20

#HarebellChallenge
#wildflowerhour
On a chalk downland at #NoarHill surrounded by summer wildflowers and spent orchids going to seed. Nodding Harebells to cheer
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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jul 17

#swift in a plant pot. Today I was working in a cottage in Newlyn and heard fluttering in the conservatory. I found this plant pot and a trapped swift inside that couldn’t escape. I took the pot onto the balcony and eventually the swift dropped down and flew off. All is ok 👍 #cornwallbirds #birding

A swift trapped inside a plant pot. Once out doors, Swift flew off and is ok.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jul 15

#Swallows in a bus stop. Local bus stop near me functions as a bring and borrow book store as well, housing this delightful Swallows nest with three young and an adult. Delightful sight ❤️ #cornwallbirds #birding

A nest of swallows. 3 young and an adult

Swallows nest with 4 occupants looking out (1 hiding) in a sheltered bus stop

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jul 13

#wildflowerhour #hairyplants #beautifuldemoiselle #beautyeverywhere Here, near Sennen Cove, Cornwall- by the sea lots of Daucus carota subsp. Maritimus or Sea Carrot among them plus tonnes of these Damselfly by the stream.

Sea Carrot on a cliff edge showing hairy peduncle

Flowering umbel of Sea Carrot by the sea

Beautiful Demoiselle perched on a leaf. A metallic blue damselfly.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hi Steve, thanks for organising, I had a fabulous time, learnt so much ☺️👍

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you, I will. I spotted I think Early Marsh var Pulchella, a small group earlier this month.. To hear the Nightjar as well as the Heath Fragrant made my weekend!

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 16

How amazing to go in search of a bird and it it’s call at dusk over the weekend, yet to find an elusive (to me anyways) orchid by chance on the lizard peninsula
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#heathfragrantorchid (I think!) But fragrant it was! Just lovely❤️ Plus I heard the bird☺️
#orchid #lizardpeninsula

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 2

Walked alongside the Marazion Marshes this early eve & heard Cetti’s & Reed Warbler, saw Linnets, Dunnocks, Herons and Egrets. Here is St Michaels Mount with #pyramidorchid scattered across the Marazion dunes, the garden escape Erigeron glauca has really naturalised along this stretch as well.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 1

#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
2)From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 1

#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
1) From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 1

#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
2)From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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@ukorchids.bsky.social

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Jun 1

#OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour
1) From travels this week to Wiltshire & Dorset and then back home in Cornwall:
Lesser Butterfly
Burnt Tip
Common Spotted
Greater Butterfly
Common Twayblade
Southern Marsh
Bee
Heath Spotted
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@ukorchids.bsky.social

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · May 4

Wow, yes such an amazing blue!!

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · May 4

#HighUpPlants on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. Early Purple Orchid and Green Winged Orchid. Surviving the salty winds and thin soils. Wonderful day today
#Wildflowerhour
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Early Purple Orchid on a high Cornish cliff top looking awesome in the spring sunshine

Green Winged orchid high above the ocean

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · May 1

And earlier this week I went to check out a coastal field of Green Winged Orchids in South Devon and was treated to a beautiful dance of a pair of Orange Tips! I love seeing the bee activity on the Echium’s down here. Fingers crossed it’s a better year for our insects and birds etc 🙂

Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · May 1

Hi so I’ve seen the odd Painted Lady (I think on the lanes around me in far west of Cornwall and I saw some lovely Speckled Wood up at RSPB Arne a couple weeks ago, several in fact.

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Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Could be that the warm spring weather is playing a part?

Glynn @g1ynn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Although so far this year I am getting more screen splat than i did all of last year! Also i am definitely seeing more butterflies in the different gardens i work at.. (I’m in Cornwall btw) and I barely saw any until around August last year.

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