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| 22nd May |
Left Matt in charge of the cats. Travelled to Stanstead by taxi had a sandwich lunch and flew by Ryanair to Zaragosa. Phil drove to our B&B in Berdun in a noisy, but capacious minivan. Warm welcome and a good evening meal - salad with Spanish onion, cheese and bacon followed by beef stew and baked potato. Interesting light flowery white wine and a Rioja. The usual troubled sleep in a new bed... |
| 23rd May | We went out early on the first morning to look around Casa Sarasa and part of Berdun |
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 Casa Sarasa |
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 After a bit one gets to ignore the wires |
 Field poppies |
 Not so tidy |
 Town on the hill |
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 Elderflowers |
 Hippeastrums growing outside a house |
 The Church |
After breakfast we walked to the 'Badlands'. Saw a variety of raptors and heard warblers. A red backed shrike was seen, but not by me. Lots of good plants, some butterflies, Southern speckled wood, Wall brown and Spanish Fritillary. |
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 Cynoglossum creticum |
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 Muscari comosum |
 Griffon vulture and Booted eagle below, the quality is so rough I gave up taking birds...  |
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 Silybum marianum |
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 Lathyrus cicera |
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 Helianthemum apenninum |
 Thymus vulgaris |
 Gorse |
 Berdun |
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 The Badlands |
 Circling vultures |
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 Ophrys sphegodes - early spider orchid |
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 Reseda lutea |
 Ophrys apifera - bee orchid |
 Cynoglossum creticum |
 Poppy - Papaver rhoeas |
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 Sainfoin used as a fodder crop |
 Elephant legs |
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 Linum narbonense |
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 Orchis purpurea - Lady orchid pale variant |
 Ophrys scolopax - woodcock orchid |
 Ophrys insectifera - fly orchid |
 Ophrys sphegodes - early spider orchid |
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 Helianthemum apenninum |
 Euphorbia serrata and Santolina chamaecyparissus |
 Beautiful flax |
 Interesting roots |
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 Wall Brown |
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 Polygala vulgaris |
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 Helleborus viridis |
 Cytisophyllum sessilifolium |
 Berberis and Helleborus viridis at the back |
 Echium vulgare |
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 Helianthemums |
 Allium moly |
 Grasshopper |
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 Plantathera bifolia - Lesser Butterfly Orchid |
 Orchis militaris |
 Tetragonolobos maritimus - Dragon's teeth |
 Female blue |
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 Antirrhinum majus |
 Shadows |
 Spanish fritillary |
 Abandoned house |
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 Aphyllanthes monspeliensis |
 Des-res |
Wasps' nest |
 Berdun |
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 Beautiful flax again |
 Poppies, poppies everywhere |
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| Came back to the casa for lunch then another local walk near the Rio Aragon. | |||||||||||||
 Tetragonolobus maritimus |
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 Verbascum |
 Wild rose |
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 What a lovely little chap! |
 and again |
 Acinos alpina |
 Dipcadi serotinum - brown bluebell - a more appropriate name for the one below  |
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 Arenaria agregata |
 Linum suffruticosum subsp. salsaloides |
 Iberian water frog |
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 Longhorn beetle |
 Aphyllanthes monspeliensis |
 Orchis |
 There is another praying mantis in this shot |
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 Ophrys sphegodes |
 Green tiger beetle |
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 Rio Aragon |
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 Panoramic views |
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 Orchis champagneuxii - morio group |
 Yellow rattle |
 Carduncellus mitissimus |
 Ophrys tenthredinifera - Sawfly Orchid |
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 Rio Aragon |
 Long view of Berdun |
Plant lists and dinner which was carrot and coriander soup, half a chicken and large beans. I was delighted that they served de-caf. coffee. |
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