June 15th 2010

Despite being sunny the cold northerly wind did not make for a pleasant visit to the pond with Bob this morning and the only birds of note were a Great-crested Grebe carrying its young and the Egyptian Goose still around the sailing club. More interestingly were the 22 Common Spotted Orchids at a new site location along with a report of 11 and 1 plants at 2 know sites making this a record year for this species here. Also a Bee Orchid at new site location recently emerged making 3 known sites this year all though we have lost two other site. Two Pale Prominent, Cinnabar and Pale Tussock on the visitors centre.

Richard