Our walk around Sharpenhoe Clappers started off with 8 and grew to about 16 including 2 YounGnats.

We walked from the car park down moleskin hill by the road and saw Twayblade, Bee, Common Spotted and Pyramidal Orchids in good numbers.

There was a good show of Great Pignut and several butterfly species seen including Dark-Green Fritillary, Marbled white, Meadow brown, Ringlet, Large skipper and Small Tortoiseshell.

The three fields that used to be arable had large numbers of Pyramidal orchids, including one white one, as well as Common Broomrape.

A caterpillar of the Brimstone butterfly was found on a Buckthorn and a fantastic female Small Elephant Hawk Moth was rescued from the path.

On the return to the car park via the hill fort we found white Helleborine that had finished flowering. We searched for Yellow Birdsnest orchid without success, but found Fragrant orchids in the grassland.