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420 grams, 14.8 ounces 'small'' Rhea egg from nephew George Randall compared to a chicken egg. Scrambled on toast, you just know that it's going to be good 😋

What a delight it was served on locally produced Royal Doulton Fairfax.

Fumitory high in the hedge outside of the Whippet Inn #wildflowerhour #HighUpPlants

There is a little of the jungle sniper from WW11 about our Gareth Lambe Himantoglossum robertianum on its last legs but I don't think that they look any better brand new🤣

Doing the humping for Julie at Cauldon Low carboot. Luckily there other attractions nearby. Early Purple orchids

I keep getting confused between signs saying 'step this way', 'please enter the view is wonderful' and 'you just stop right there', 'do not enter danger to life'. Wrong side of the fence again dam dyslexia 🤣

Gymnocalycium gibbosum v. Nigrum awaiting the arrival of the much needed rain in Trentham⛈️

Lesser Stag Beetle(?) on the path in Chappets Copse this afternoon.

The Southern Peaks and have some small orchids (in the open) Early-Purple, Fly and Southern Marsh-orchids hiden in the hollows they are 'normal'. While you are here can you explain the way hyphens seem to jump around within the names. Yours baffled. Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Big Frog orchid plus (to me) scentless Lily of the Valley. Does anyone know if Booklice (Psocoptera) can change colour?

Everything is food for something else depending on what stage of your life you are at😱🤣 Smooth Newt, tadpoles, Large Red Damselfly and Broad-bodied Chaser, Three of these are looking for love and the other just wants to grow up Gareth Lambe Dr Richard Bate

I do wish that photographers wouldn't go all hysterical and forget field craft whilst photographing a plant that won't run away. I had to prop this yellow Fly orchid (1 of 3) back up because it had been mistaken for a Common Twayblade and flattened getting the 'money shot' 🤬

Chappetts Copse last weekend, if the first two are Sword-leaved and the last one is White Helleborine could the third photo be a hybrid with its pointed ridged leaves and smaller bracts? Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Noar Hill last Monday I know that I'm slow to reveiw my photos😱. Temperature seemed to open the White Helleborine up plus a few Common Twayblade. A Figwort under attack from Mullain Moth and Figwort Weevil (can you see my fat head in reflection?) Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Noar Hill last Monday. Duke of Burgundy, Small Blue, worn Common Blue(?) and Green Hairstreak butterflies distracted me from the orchids Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

My last photos from Noar Hill. Three different plants of yellow Fly orchids including the one that had been flatterned. And just because the rangers had collected all the corrugated iron sheets doesn't mean that they aren't worth a look Slow Worms. Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe