14th June 2020 30DaysWild

The machair at Calgary is closed to grazing from the beginning of May until the end of August.  2020 is the third year of this grazing control.  As April is often a dry month and with the sheep still grazing on it, the machair takes quite a time to recover, but the middle of May it is beginning to flower again.  It has been a very dry spring and early summer. 

There are certainly more Northern marsh orchids than last year, and this one was an especially fine specimen! 

Hawkweeds are beyond my knowledge and so I never know what they are. They are beautiful though.