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 |
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Carpobrotus acinaciformis |
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Carpobrotus acinaciformis |
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Inspected the hide at Lake Varano
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Damsel flies mating |

Two small dots are Italian hybrid frogs |

Italian wall lizard |

Farmer on his tractor |

Egret |

Date palm |

Black backed stilt
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Reeds |


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

Heron? |

Hide |

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. |
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Eastern Bath White |
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Hide |

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 |
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Limodorum abortivum |

Aristolochia rotunda |
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Bellis sylvestris |
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Neotinia intacta / maculata |
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Iris bicapitata |
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Orchis ustulata |
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Ophrys siculum |

Iris bicapitata alba |
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Aceras anthropophorum |
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Packed up for the move to the next hotel
tomorrow |