Seeing a friend and some nice Orchids.
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| Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea). |
I met Ian Philips an Orchid expert from Malaga at the Huétor Tajar exit 203 before heading out to a site near Illora where we looked for the uncommon
Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea) but at this spot we only found 2 blind rosettes so we put another address in to the sat-nav and made our way to a site near to Sierra de Huétor just to the north of Granada city.
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| Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea). |
We arrived and searched the area of scrub and eventually turned up at least 7 very nice spikes and a lot of blind rosettes. In the same area we saw 100+ spikes of
Southern Early Purple (Androrchis Olbiensis), a few
Mirror (Ophrys speculum) and
Yellow Bee Orchids (Ophrys lutea).
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| Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea). |
We also had birds including
Woodlark (Totovia / Lullula arborea),
Cirl Bunting (Escribano Soteno / Emberiza cirlus),
Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli),
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra),
Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus) and
Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius).
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| Lady Orchid (Orchis purpurea) taking a few shots. |
From here we went and had some lunch before Ian headed back off down to Malaga and I went home.
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