The images are from a local wet meadow and show some examples of the wonderful flora and fauna that can exist in such places.

Southern Marsh Orchid
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa

Southern Marsh Orchid
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa

Close up of flowering Southern Marsh Orchid
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa

Southern Marsh Orchid
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa

Southern Marsh Orchids with Ragged Robin in the background
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa and Silene Flos-cuculi

Southern Marsh Orchids and Ragged Robin
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa and Silene Flos-cuculi

A pale flowered Southern Marsh Orchid
Dactylorhiza Praetermissa

Skullcap
Scutellaria Galericulata

Marsh Marigold
Caltha Palustris

Lady’s Smock (Cuckooflower)
Cardamine Pratensis

A nest of Larvae of the Peacock Butterfly