David Harris
@cycle4nature
I find nature fascinating and inspiring - there's always so much to learn! I love photographing plants, especially orchids. Also like butterflies, dragonflies, insects, fungi, trees, and, of course, birds 😊 Lives in Cambridge UK
Mugwort, Creeping Thistle, Greater Burdock, Carline Thistle, Tansy, Ragwort and Fleabane for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge, #DaisyFamily. From a cycle and a dog walk around bone-dry Cambridge today. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Branched Bur-reed for this week's #WildflowerHour - #WetlandPlants. Lots of it growing in our local country park.
Late for #WildflowerHour this evening. Here's a Broad-leaved Helleborine I found in some ancient Beech woodland - #StillFlowering - probably actually #JustFlowering! I've never seen them this tiny before - the largest were only about 8" tall 😯 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
I think these might be hybrid Water Lilies? On the same pond as the white ones in our local country park, Cambridge. #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Purple Loosestrife grows in abundance by the fishing swims in our local country park. One of my favourite #AquaticPlants for #WildflowerHour 🙂 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A pair of White Water-Lily for this week's #WildflowerHour challlenge - #AquaticPlants There are some pink ones too on the same pond in our local country park - I assume they're hybrids of some kind? @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Greater Bladderwort growing in a popular Cambridgeshire fen - most definitely not #ClimbingPlants - more #FloatingPlants! #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
One more for #WildflowerHour, #ClimbingPlants - Traveller's Joy. So different in seed, to in flower, which is where it gets its other name from - Old Man's Beard 🙂
A few #ClimbingPlants for this week's #WildflowerHour Honeysuckle, Bindweed, Ivy and White Bryony. I find the tendrils of White Bryony fascinating - perfect "springs"! Zooming into the Ivy leaf, there's a Nigma walckenaeri checking its next meal 😋 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Hunting around East Anglian fens 3 weeks ago for dactylorhiza praetermissa ssp. Schoenophila, there were a few Marsh Fritillaries mainly visiting Buttercups, and I was lucky to get a photo, as they weren't settling for long at all, and I only had my "flower" lens 😂 #PollinatorPals #Wildflowerhour
On an orchid trip in Kent a few weeks ago we were lucky to see pseudocopulation of a Late Spider orchid by a bee! #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
One from a few weeks ago for #WildflowerHour, #PollinatorPals... A Swallowtail on Dame's Violet.
A Small White butterfly on Creeping Thistle for this week's #WildflowerHour, #PollinatorPals
These are all growing in a single meadow, containing hundreds of Common Spotted, Heath Spotted and Chalk (possibly Marsh) Fragrant orchids. I struggle with dacts, but I'm sure some could be hybrids. #WildflowerHour #OrchidChallenge @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social
Some Early and Southern Marsh orchids for #WildflowerHour, from a Cambridgeshire fen. #OrchidChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A selection of local (VC29) Bee orchids for this week's #WildflowerHour - only one is "normal"! Including f. bicolor and f. chlorantha, and possibly v. belgarum. Not technically #ChurchyardFlowers, but some are in the grounds of a former abbey 🙂 #OrchidChallenge
An Early Marsh orchid ssp. ochroleuca - almost #LawnFlowers for this week's #WildflowerHour. #Orchids
Not our lawn, but a lovely pair of Southern Marsh orchids growing in a rather damp lawn! #WildflowerHour #LawnFlowers #Orchids
We did #NoMowMay, and will probably do #NoMowSummer. So we have plenty of Hedgerow Crane's-bill growing as #LawnFlowers for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge - they really brighten up the lawn when the Sun comes out 🙂
A fantastic orchid weekend in Kent - a bit of solo exploring on Saturday, then joined @mariposanature.bsky.social on Sunday. 14 species in total. Here's a commemorative collage for #WildflowerHour #OrchidChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social Names in ALT text.
Here's a collection of mainly recent finds from Cambs, Beds, Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk, for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge, #WildFlowerShow. Today's highlights were actually 🦋 🫢 Names in ALT text. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social
A late one for #WildflowerHour #tinyplants.. I took these whilst photographing Pasqueflowers several weeks ago, but still haven't figured out what it is. My guess is a very tiny Hairy Violet - but I've never seen I've this small! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PlantID
A few orchids in bloom for #WildflowerHour this week, White Helleborine, Military, Man and Fly orchids. All seem pretty small this year, but we've not had very much rain locally, so everywhere's still dry. Beds., Suffolk and Cambs. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
For this week's #WildflowerHour challenge, #tinyplants, here is the miniscule flower of Cleavers. I would think they're less than 2 mm across - even smaller than those of Field Forget-me-not. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The Kent Early Spiders seemed even earlier than usual this year, but there were still a few good ones left when I visited last week. #WildflowerHour #Orchids
A late entry for #WildflowerHour - a budding Man orchid that I found on 30th April in Cambs. Need some rain now 🤞 #orchids @ukorchids.bsky.social
Trying to sneak this one into this week's #WildflowerHour #ButtercupChallenge on a technicality: Common Columbine isn’t a buttercup, but it is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Also featuring one tiny aphid ghost suit! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social