Andy Rogers

@duncan_dine Hi Duncan - loving your Swiss pictures. I saw this last week in the Tatras, looks v similar to your Carline Skipper (though rather tatty)... would you agree? Cheers, Andy

Finishing up today with this Skipper in Swiss 🇨🇭 Alps bit of a huge Caveat but I think it’s Carline Skipper

@BrennanMartine Thanks Martine - Google Pixel Pro8 phone camera is brilliant!

@withylake Exciting! Such a sharp photo of it - thanks for sharing 👏

OK... so briefly coming out of X retirement to share this, the pinnacle of my orchiding experiences. Epipogium aphyllum. The Slovak Paradise National Park, 17-7-2025. 👻💜🇸🇰

Befitting last ever post on X ... an allwhite evening orchiding in 🇭🇷 - Orchis simia & Orchis quadripunctata 🤍🤍

💜🇭🇷 Lady Orchids (Orchis purpurea) Dalmatia, 25-4-2025

@HardingRogerC only a week Roger, sadly...

Excellent stuff Andy. How long are you away?

Ophrys bertolonii / Ophrys incubacea hybrid swarm. Ciovo, 🇭🇷 24-4-2025 💜

Badbury Rings - Common Twayblade (Neottia ovata) 21-4-2025

Early Spider Orchids (Ophrys sphegodes) Dorset 20-4-2025

Right, final post on X ... one of a few Green Winged Orchids (Anacamptis morio) in Dorset today & nearby some amorous adders (Vipera berus) 29-3-2025. Off to Bluesky ... @withylake.bsky.social

@ukorchids 🤣🤣 ..yeah, just warming up to it ... no more X posts for me 🤪

@withylake "I'm not often wrong" 💪😂😘 come over to Bluesky mate 👍

Green Winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) Somerset, 27-3-2025

@NatureSaxilby Yeah, several years yet probably - will be interesting to hear when the pop up 😀

@withylake Eighteen months ago, we were given seeds of Green-winged orchid which we scattered on our nature site, and are holding our breath until any plants appear. Maybe a year or two more to wait?

@MartinWood14 Some found last week Martin - will be stunning in a couple of weeks, weather permitting!

@withylake Very nice, I wondering when the 1st would be photographed and recording. Very early, though, is it I thought about next week onwards.

Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes). Dorset 26-3-2025

@HardingRogerC Make sure it is sunny Roger.. Only saw one today, next week ought to be hundreds +

Nice one Andy. Might pop down for these next week.

Spring has sprung 😀 ... Sand crocus, Romulea columnae, at Dawlish Warren 20-3-2025 @WarrenBirding

Sand crocus, Romulea columnae, Dawlish Warren, 20-3-2025