Today I went to look for the Bee Orchids at Dealburn road wildlife site. After a little searching I found an amazing 24 of these beautiful Orchids. Many are still to bloom so they should be on show till around…
Yes on the 20th of June 10 BEES descended on the Dealburn Road wildlife site where I am monitoring and recording the flora and fauna. BEES are the Bradford Environmental Education Service and we met up at the entrance to the site.…
Yesterday I took other members of the Low Moor & Oakenshaw conservation Group to look at the Bee Orchids at the Dealburn Road Woodland site at Low Moor. The walk started off really well one the rain stop and secondly…
Following the discovery of the Bee Orchids I thought I had just about calmed down…but there was more good news for our local area with 5 Southern Marsh Orchids appearing at Toad holes Beck at the usual site left of…
Today I went to a site in Low Moor to look at a Southern Marsh Orchid found by Joan Dobson of the Bradford Urban Wildlife group. But as I was taking some photographs of the Orchid a nearby plant caught…
I have been thinking has this mild winter period had any effects on the bird species in our recording area. So today with the weather sunny with a fairly strong S/W wind and a temperature of 10c I decided to conduct a bird…
The Northern Orchid has returned to it’s usual spot at Toad Holes beck just beyond the steps leading to the Beck from Raw Nook Nr. There is just one plant at the moment but I think others will appear.
I found a new plant species at Toad Holes Beck the other day…Sorry cannot report some kind of rare Orchid…but a humble Celery-Leaved Buttercup, in fact two have appeared by the smaller pond at Toad Holes Beck this brings the…
