Wolstonbury Hill, Nature walk, 2nd June 2020

 Butterfly orchids were in their prime this day.
All the pictures were taken from the paths and mostly with a zoom lens to avoid flattening dozens of orchids to photograph the best one.  Sadly one sees that too often.

Butterfly orchids in a "forest" of Common Twayblades.

 Early-purple orchids had gone over except an occasional late one in the shade.

Fly orchid

Fragrant orchid

Dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria

Dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria

 See https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/dyers-greenweed

Meadow Brown

Grass-veneer moth

Grass-veneer moth

 Spotted Crane-fly, Nephrotoma crocata copulating.

 Adonis Blue butterfly, female.

 Small Heath butterfly.

 Beware this prehistoric monstrous serpent lurking in the woods.