An orchid in Cottenham

Cottenham features plenty of intensive agriculture and very little in the way of rich meadow habitat. Bee Orchid is the only orchid I have seen in the village so I was taken aback by a very obvious Pyramidal Orchid at the edge of Les King Wood. A species that is relatively common elsewhere of course but it was great to see; lets hope it survives and we get more appearing in years to come.

Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis

While the orchid was an interesting it didn't compare to the ridiculous sight of a FULMAR over LKW on Friday 12th June at just before 5pm. It was definitely one of those where it took a few seconds for me to compute what was going on. The bird circled a couple of times and then headed south towards CPS. What was surely the same bird was then picked up over Little Shelford about half an hour later and continued south.