Had a tiring but very enjoyable day on the reserve yesterday. I was very keen to see what it looked like because we had had some heavy rain – the first for nearly 2 months! Gerry & I spent the morning workparty revisiting all the mapped squares, noting down which orchids were in flower but not looking for any of the remaining unfound plants – I think that if we haven’t found a plant by now it has probably taken a year out or withered and dried up anyway.<\/p>\n
Much to my amazement we found a few Monkey orchids in flower (about 40) but they were nearly all restricted to the western side of the slope, where the soils were able to retain a little more moisture. All the Monkey orchids on the southern aspect were yellow and the very few that had set bud were probably going to abort anyway.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon a pre-booked party from the Hardy Orchid Society came up to have a walk round the site. We saw just about everything that we wanted to see (including a late Grizzled Skipper) but the Club-tailed dragonflies that had been common in the morning has all buzzed off and were not showing themselves. Out of the wind there were also a few large mayflies (Ephemera vulgata<\/em>) doing their courtship dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had a tiring but very enjoyable day on the reserve yesterday. I was very keen to see what it looked like because we had had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workparty-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}