Another nice orchid seen at Alvor today was the Yellow Bee-orchid (Ophyrs lutea).
#nature #flowers #orchid

Mirror Orchid (Ophyrs speculum) Alvor, Portugal. Pollinated by a single species of scollid wasp, the flower resembling the female wasp. #nature #flowers #orchids

Bowl Barrow (Neolithic - Bronze Age) in Tinstall Forest, Suffolk. It is prominently sighted on the crest of a small spur above a south facing slope. It survives as a mound, c.20m in diameter and 1.1m in height. Traces of the ditch dug to construct the barrow also remain. The term ‘bowl barrow’ refers to their resemblance to an upturned bowl. #history #ancienthistory #neolithic

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#coins #numismatics

Lessor Black-backed Gull ‘RHRF’, Havergate Island, Suffolk. Ringed there as a chick in 2016. Next sighting was El Jadifa, Morocco in March 2020, then seen back annually on Havergate since 2021. #nature #birds #gulls #birdmigration

Herring gull ‘VNF’. Ringed as a chick on Havergate Island, Suffolk, on 27.6.14. Recorded on Guernsey, Channel Islands, in Aug 2014 then the French Atlantic coast in Feb 2015 and the following two winters. Recorded back at Havergate in April 2017, were all subsequent sightings have been recorded except for a record from Dungeness, Kent on 03.03.18. #birds #gulls #birdmigration

#SilentSunday #nature #birds

Avocets feeding on one of the lagoons on Havergate Island with the Cold War landscape of Orfordness in the background. #birds #nature #coldwar #suffolk