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The Gargano

Thursday 25th April

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

Before breakfast we walked down the road towards the town

In the morning we went to the bar at Lago di Lesina and onto the beach in a couple of places.

Above Cagnano Varano and Carpino in the afternoon

Desiccated camel?

Long shadows

Bright morning

Rodi Garganico

Shellfishing

Palms and Parasols

Tractor art work

On the dunes

Cistus salvifolius

Cynoglossum cheirifolium

Silene colorata

Reflections

Acacia cyanophylla

Italian wall lizard

Juniper berries

Silene colorata

Mouse's eye view

Dappled white?

Anthemis maritima

Found on the sand

Lotus halophilus

Eryngium maritinum

White snail

Beach flora

Eucalyptus bark

Verbascum phlomoides

Silene vulgaris

Ophrys garganica

Yomping to the sea

Fumanathynifolia

Lonicera etrusca

Carpobrotus acinaciformis

Carpobrotus acinaciformis

Inspected the hide at Lake Varano

Damsel flies mating

Two small dots are Italian hybrid frogs

Italian wall lizard

Farmer on his tractor

Egret

Date palm

Black backed stilt

 

Reeds

 

 

 

 

 

Four lined snake swimming and landing;  this was a rare sighting

Heron?

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Reeds

Curvy trees

 

Pendulous tit's nest in the tamarisk tree.   Note the entrance.

Pendulous tit sitting in his half made nest on the right.

Eastern Bath White

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Cynoglossum creticum

Small copper

Lunch stop by sluice gate

Birds on view in the reserve

Nature's art

The beetles were licking something off the stones.   Tiny crucifer on R

Ceterach officinarum

Umbilicus rupestris

Limodorum abortivum

Aristolochia rotunda

Bellis sylvestris

Neotinia intacta / maculata

Iris bicapitata

Orchis ustulata

Ophrys siculum

Iris bicapitata alba

Aceras anthropophorum

Packed up for the move to the next hotel tomorrow

 

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