It's orchid time again at Maltby Common Local Nature Reserve.
The greater butterfly orchids are looking good, but most of the bee orchids have yet to open. The site is well worth a visit if you get the chance, but the orchid season doesn't last long!
Getting to Maltby Common by public transport is easy; catch a number 10 or 87 bus from Rotherham Interchange, then get off at the terminus (near the Lumley Arms pub).
On Tuesday Liz and I reluctantly returned home from a fabulous holiday in the southwest of Britain - a week on the Isles of Scilly, plus a few days in the far west of Cornwall.
We were very lucky with the weather. Although Bank Holiday Monday was a total wash-out, we had more than our fair share of blue skies and warm sunshine. At times the weather was so good that it felt more like the Mediterranean than the British Isles!
After a couple of false starts, it feels like spring has finally sprung. The buds are bursting, the birds are nesting... and even the toads are feeling amorous.
An ecologist and photographer based in the north of England.
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