Orchids, long-tailed tits and beautiful beetles

This photo, made with a macro lens like the other ones in this blog post, shows a southern marsh orchid in the Heempark on 28 June 2015.

As we entered the park, a robin singing.

In a ditch, mallards, and a coot couple with a nest.

A flock of long-tailed tits in a tree.

A juvenile robin cleaning its feathers on a branch.

Field horsetails.

Chaffinch and blackcap singing.

A lesser black-backed gull flying overhead.

A chiffchaff sings.

Quite some southern marsh orchid flowers.

Greater yellow rattle flowers.

While field bindweed intertwines with other plants.

Ring-necked parakeets call.

A common carder bee. Honeybees. Hoverflies.

Another orchid. Also a southern marsh orchid; but of the rare variety Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. praetermissa var. junialis.

Bladder campion flowering; with field horsetail in the background of this photo.

On this photo, field horsetails are the main subject.

A blackbird sings.

A Muscovy duck walks past.

Wild strawberry fruits along the footpath.

Milk-parsley: partially still flowering, in other plants the flowers are already gone.

Near the milk-parsley plants many small beautiful beetles: green dock leaf beetles.

Orchids in Dutch Drenthe province: here.

North America: The bushtit is relatively plain but has a distinctive long tail and hyper, perky behavior. Different subspecies of bushtits have significant differences in plumage and songs, and one day these birds may be split into unique species: here.

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