John Leitch finds rare Fly orchids in Brockham Quarry in the Surrey Hills today.

 It was smiles all round when John Leitch very kindly showed us the above exquisite and rare Fly orchid in Brockham Quarry this afternoon.  It was surrounded by very many other orchids; Common Twayblades below, living up to their old Norse name with two leaves and common.

Above John carefully cups this rare find in his hand to illustrate its tiny form.

It is John's 70th birthday next week and we wish him many more decades walking the Surrey Hills and enjoying its rare and beautiful wildlife.

For pictures of Fly orchids from earlier years please see http://sussexrambler.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/fly-orchids.html
and http://sussexrambler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/fly-orchids-and-president-of-ramblers.html for when I bumped into the BBC "Secret Britain" film crew with Julia Bradbury,