Kate McLoughlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Just where you're standing, Terry, we're actually within a few feet, I should say a metre, of four different species of Irish native orchids.
In Mount Merion Parish on the church grounds, an area that has never really been...
plowed or fertilized or treated with weed killer but it has over the years been plowed up and relayed when the church was being built when the school was being built but it appears the seed bank was just put back across the top of it and this is what has come up now before we start talking about the orchids that are present here this is a beautiful meadow because i'm seeing lots of different plants i've seen the nap weeds in it i'm seeing all of the different birds for traffic i'm seeing here
Well, now, right in front of me, and it escapes from my eye all the time because it's so greenish that you could easily mistake it for a grasshead.
That's a tway blade, so-called from the two great big leaves at the base of it.
You can miss it easily because it's so greenish.
Right beside it is the bee orchid.
20 or 30 centimetres away.
And it's just coming into flower.
And it has this most spectacular flower that imitates the appearance of a bee.
The plan being evolutionary terms, that a male bee will come along.
and attempt to have a romance with this flower, and thus distribute the pollen from plant to plant.
Well, this might have been true, you know, sometime in geological aeons, but nowadays, apparently, they're mainly self-fertile, or possibly pollinated by flies.
I have actually seen bees fly towards the bee orchid, and then pause in mid-air, and then kind of apologetically fly off.
Well, over here, again, you have two different species within 30 centimetres of each other.
This beautiful, vivid, vivid violet-purple mauve, don't know what you call that, lurid colour.
With a characteristic pointed top.
It's called the pyramidal orchid.
And it's a very dominant species in this meadow that we're looking at.
Oh yeah, there's almost too many to count.
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