Bog orchid rediscovery

the young hunter · #1 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 10:32 PM

Finally got my bog orchid sightings in the Elan Valley confirmed from July this year and its a redicovery!!

Really pleased

BBC - Mid Wales Gardening - The Bog Orchid is back.

Love to know if anyone else has had some similar wildlife discovery moments this year.

Mike

AshLee · #2 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 07:27 AM

Wow, that's impressive. Nothing like this has ever happened to me. Well done to you!

Wild-Woman · #3 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 08:06 AM

Well done Young Hunter. What a great find and deserved recognition.What a satisfying feeling it must be to rediscover something that was thought to be lost.

pammosley · #4 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 08:11 AM

Well done Mike, I bet your dead chuffed

The area around Elan valley & Rhyadar is one of my favourite places ever.

ceterach · #5 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 10:01 AM

Well done Mike, wasn't you who found Ghost Orchid was it???

ChrisR · #6 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 10:14 AM

Great news for a really endangered species - well done!

I found it in one of its famous localities in the New Forest a few years ago and was quite shocked at how small an area it grew in, so I am not even sure if it survived there. One of the locals told me that many had been killed by photographers who actually pulled them up to replant them in groups in a more photogenic position!!

leifus · #7 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 10:18 AM

very jealous! Nice one

The best I've got is my name to the largest Wiltshire population of Fly orchid (66!!) and also to the first ever record of field garlic (Allium oleraceum) in south Wiltshire (second in Wiltshire, but the first record is thought to have been extinct)

ceterach · #8 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisR

Great news for a really endangered species - well done!

I found it in one of its famous localities in the New Forest a few years ago and was quite shocked at how small an area it grew in, so I am not even sure if it survived there. One of the locals told me that many had been killed by photographers who actually pulled them up to replant them in groups in a more photogenic position!!

Chris

Seems to have been a good year for Bog Orchid in the New Forest.

Never put anything beyond some people to get a good photo!!!

All the best

ChrisR · #9 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ceterach

Seems to have been a good year for Bog Orchid in the New Forest.

Great news

I saw 4 plants when I visited about 10 years ago so it was in a really precarious state.

Quote:

Never put anything beyond some people to get a good photo!!!

Well, I warden Hartslock so I know all about photographers!

But seriously, I still believe that the majority of photographers are very well-meaning and don't set out to cause any damage. The problem with well-visited sites with only a few plants is that everyone wants to stand or lay in the same place and that's when you get the problems. I think it's all a matter of education and visitor-management ... trying to let people get the enjoyment they want but without causing any problems for the site.