The Long Purples!

With excellent directions from Jane F., I parked south of Sotterley, a nice confiding Red- legged Partidge was seen in the field which I photographed and I then walked down a track to be greeting with the wonderous site of around 15 Early Purple Orchids, my first flower plants of this species for 8 long years (the long gone over ones from Winks Meadow from 2019 doesn't count!). Famously called the "long purples by Shakespeare in a "little known" play called Hamlet! Always nice to see Orchids in good sunlight after a drop of rain, but after a few minutes it was rapidly clouding over and the Hoopoe had been refound at carlton Marshes and a drive back to Carlton Marshes. I will be back!