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Only one pin at the wall creeper site  

Laura's blog belongs here:  https://thetreethatfellinthewoods.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/a-feast-for-the-senses/

 

28th

May   

I got up at 06.00 to try to record the nightingales, but it was too late.   With double summer time 05.00 would have been better.

Misty morning

Love this one

More poppies

Artichoke

The Giant

Barley

Borage

We left the vans by the Refugio de Dios te Salve in the Hecho Valley and walked off up through the woods to the site where we hoped to see Wall Creepers.

The cows kept an eye on us

Yomping again

We saw flashes of the red in the wings of the Wall Creepers on the cliffs and close ups in the Leaders' scopes.

Oxalis acetosella and violets

View across the valley at the Wall Creeper Site.

The weather improved

Cephalanthera longifolia

Monesees uniflora 

Monesees uniflora

Monesees uniflora

We had lunch from the back of the van as the man at the Refugio de Dios te Salve would not allow us to use his picnic tables.   We were allowed to use the loos...

Saxifraga longifolia

The Foz Binies Gorge

Plants growing in the rock

Griffon Vulture chick

Lithodora fruticosa

Anacamptis pyramidalis

Green underside Blue?

Scrophularia canina

Pisum sativum

Allium moly

Chaenorhinum organifolium

Saxifraga longifolia

Saxifraga longifolia

Allium pyrenaicum

Rock garden

Lonicera pyrenaica

Oberthur's Grizzled Skipper

Althaea hirsuta

Wall Creeper details in Spanish

Spanish Festoon

We were delighted to see it

Heleanthemun nummularium subsp. pyrenaicum

Petrocoptis pyrenaica

Ramonda myconii

Blues and a skipper

Cricket on a buttercup

Trifolium ochroleucon

Fungus

Ophrys apifera

Oberthur's Grizzled Skipper

Possibly Medicago sativa

Tragopogon clock

Castle through the window

We came home for the last list and packed.
 
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