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Our room and the view from the window about 7 am We started the day with a look at the moth trap
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 Spanish Tiger moth - Hyphoraia dejeani |
 Peppered Moth - Biston betularia |
 More stunning camouflage |
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Checking and snapping the moths before breakfast - Teresa listed all the moths caught in the trap. There were some great tits that were very interested in helping out with the moths |
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 View from the terrace |
 Small Elephant Hawkmoth |
 Purple Bar - Cosmorhoe ocellata |
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 Posada Del Hoyal |
 Bituminaria bituminosa |
 Pallenis spinosa |
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We walked around the old part of Potes and Margaret bought some sausage and cheese for her daughter. |
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 A lot of sitting is done |
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 Some of the roofs are characterful |
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 Tourist trap |
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 What is going on here? |
 Erigeron karvinskianus an escapee |
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 Plane tree |
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We went up in the cable car at Fuente De to see the alpine rock plants |
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Views from the top
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 Lithodora diffusa |
 Matthiola perennis |
 Gentiana angustifolia ssp. corbariensis |
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 Ranunculus gramineus |
 Dandelion |
 Gentiana verna ssp verna |
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 Ranunculus amplexicaulis |
 Viola rupestris |
 Scilla verna |
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 Globularia nudicaulis |
 Polygala |
 Androsace villosa |
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 Valeriana tuberosa
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 Chough demanding food with menaces by Richard |
 Alpine chough a number of them helped us out with our lunch |
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 Anthyllis vulneraria |
 Myosotis alpestris |
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 A hairy plant trapping the dew |
 Ranunculus amplexicaulis |
 Thymelaea sp. |
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 Female Eurranthis plummistaria |
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 Narcissus asturiensis |
 Another female Eurranthis plummistaria. I saw males but could not snap one |
 Eggs? |
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 Daphne laureola |
 Saxifraga dedeana |
 Saxifraga felineri - a Picos endemic |
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 Saxifraga felineri - a Picos endemic |
 Sedum conifera |
 Our lunch spot |
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 Alpine Newt |
 Re-cycling |
 Sempervivum |
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 Alpine Accentor - a Lothario amongst birds |
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The Pyrenean Chamois is a goat antelope. Isard is the French name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_Chamois
Isard cooling off in the snow by Richard |
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 Mountain tarn |
 Linaria alpina |
 Iberis carnosa |
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 Richard, Annette and Teresa Those who waited to see the wall creeper were rewarded and Ketil took a very good picture. |
 On the way back to the cable car |
 Home on the cable car |
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