And this. . . .

. . . . is not an Orchid.

2-3 days ago I said "This is not an Owl."  prior to explaining why.

The day of the Orchid lecture we learnt that practically all Ochids are epiphytes apart from 1 or two species.
Brit Orchids tend to be terrestrial; but we are not devoid of things with an epiphytic life-style, but more by accident than specific design.
Classic example being yet another, different tree.
However, I'm 90+% sure this example is a Polypody Fern. I remember Mam telling us, as kids, (rightly or wrongly) that if it grew on a field hedge it was always on the field side, rather than the road side, of the hedge.
Another bit of Coutry Lore ... "Moss grows on the North side of a tree". On TV they often point out - only soliary trees because a tree in a wood has shade on all sides, not just North.
OK this "moss" is a fern, but the tree was isolated and had this group in full sun and another twice the size in the shaded side, not because of the shade, so much as there was a missing branch offering a better site.

Today's journey took us to Ambleside, where all my Lake shots were slightly worse than middling.
The "pied Seeder" just happened to be a bonus I couldn't resist.