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The Countryside HourBee orchids, chicken fungus, and a very tricky "rural riddle"Chris Skinner's High Ash Farm at Caistor St Edmund - Monday 22nd June 2015

It wasn't the sunniest of summer days, but there was plenty to be seen on Chris's farm.

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The viper's bugloss

Standing out among the daisies.

  • It's a dog's life on High Ash Farm
  • Wild honeysuckle by the side of a road running through the farm
  • Skinner's honeysuckle
  • One of the High Ash Farm oak trees
  • Looking up at the distinctive "chicken of the woods" fungus on the wound from a branch probably cut off in the early 1900s
  • The distinctive fungus
  • Oxeye daisies and viper's buglosses
  • Chris Skinner in his natural habitat!
  • Another view of Chris with the oxeye daisies
  • The viper's bugloss
  • A bee at work on the daisies
  • It wasn't the best day for bees
  • Next, Chris showed us this incredible bee orchid
  • Chris is very proud of his bee orchid
  • Pointing out the pollen
  • In the same field as the bee orchid are many patches of white dwarf clover
  • More bees buzzing about
  • A close-up of one of the bees

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