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The Gargano

Monday 29th April

The pins represent locations over the whole holiday click on the map to enlarge it

Down to the town again before breakfast still too early for good light.

Assorted roofs

One man and his dog

Washing

More roofs

Plants on this one

We botanised along the road to Manfredonia

Iris  lutescens

Western whip snake by Walter

The Virgin Mary

Lithospermum?

Helianthemum

Anemone hortensis

Paul's boots Polaroid transfer

Bumble bee

Asphodel

Iris lutescens alba

Shrine

Spider

 

Cream-spotted tiger

Ophrys tenthredinifera

Exquisite flowers of Salvia lanata

Cream-spotted tiger

Small copper

Web with dew

Cricket

Serapias

View down the gorge to the plain and the sea

Across the valley from the view point

 

Spider

Long-horned beetle

Orchis ustulata

Green beetle

Prickly Pear

Bellardia trixago

Euphorbia

Crab spider on a poppy

Malva sylvestris

We had lunch by a olive grove full of butterflies, but cobbled so that chasing around was problematic!

Peter looking up to a giant fennel

Swallowtail laying eggs

Clouded Yellow

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serapias

Trifolium campestre

Cuscuta campestris - Dodder

Gladiolus

The birders at the Manfredonia wetlands

Wetlands

Oats 

Wetlands

Carpobrotus edulis

Echium plantagineum

Cichorium intybus

Orobanche ramosa

Wetlands

Smallholding

Moorish gecko

 

There were lovely patches of flowers on the verges

 

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