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Tuesday 24th April
The pins represent locations over the whole holiday click on the map to enlarge it
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Before breakfast we walked up the hill behind the hotel to the sound of nightingales. There was a field with lady orchids.
After breakfast we went to the Peschiki area and after lunch on to the area west of Vieste |
 Zantedescia aethiopica by the car park |
 Villa at the top of the hill |
 Lady orchids |
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 Vinca major |
Orchis purpurea - the lady orchid. The morning light was so cold I had to change the white balance to daylight cloudy |
 Pittosporum tobira - a small tree with scented flowers originally from China and Japan, but planted widely in the Mediterranean |
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We walked along a road between the fields and the sea
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 Silybum marianum |
 Ophrys bombyliflora - bumble bee orchid |
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 Ophrys phryganae / sicula |
 Ophrys apulica |
 Possibly another slight variation |
 Ophrys apulica |
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 Ophrys incubacea |
 Ophrys lutea |
 Bunny tails |
 Allium subhirsutum |
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 Ophrys scolopax subsp cornuta |
 detail showing the horns |
 Ophrys lutea |
 Cistus monspeliensis |
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 Anthyllis tetraphylla |
 Headland |
 Windswept tree |
 Red Admiral above and Painted Lady |
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 Fishing rods? |
 Lotus cytisoides |
 Medicago marina |
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 Anacyclus tomentosum |
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 Trees from the road |
 Meadow flowers |
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 The fields, road and the sea |
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 From the road towards the fields |
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 Ophrys biscutella |
 I love this little row of trees |
 Spider and her prey |
 Possibly Ophrys cornuta |
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 Millipede |
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 Anthyllis vulneraria praepropera |
 Tamus communis - black bryony |
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 Cistus creticus |
 A tower with interesting plants on the walls |
 Tetragonolobus purpureus
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 Prasium majus |
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 Ophrys apulica |
 Ophrys biscutella? |
Uriospermum dalechampi |
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 Lotus ornithopodiodes
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 Ophrys apulica |
 Borago officinalis |
 Large snail |
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 Anagalis arvensis |
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 Trifolium?
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 Orobanche ramosa |
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 Eruca vesicaria |
Scolio flavifrons |
 Oxalis pes-caprae |
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 Lathyrus ochrus |
 Mimosa |
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 Antirrhinum siculum |
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 Flora around the tower |
Campanula garganica on the tower |
 Iridescent beetle |
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 Antirrhinum siculum |
Hyoscyamus albus growing on the tower walls |
 Crepis rubra |
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 Caterpillars of the Southern Comma on Parietaria judaica |
 Convolvulus elegantissimus |
 Trifolium tomentosum |
 Spider |
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 Orchis purpurea |
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| We had lunch in an olive grove with derelict buildings; the birders saw a Montague's Harrier, red-rumped swallows, bee-eaters, a hobby, whinchat and Jack snipe. The spiralling roads made me glad to have my wrist bands. | ||||||
 Meadow |
 Richly coloured lady orchid |
 Cricket on Crepis rubra |
 Bee-fly |
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 Nigella damascena alba |
 Swallowtail |
 Swallowtail |
 Allium roseum |
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 Cerinthe major |
 Anacamptis pyramidalis |
 Ophrys incubacea |
 Convolvulus althaeoides
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Anacamptis pyramidalis with a crab spider |
 Gladiolus italicus |
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 Ophrys incubacea |
 Anacamptis pyramidalis |
 Hypochoeris achyrophorus |
 Uriospermum dalechampi |
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 Orobanche |
 Anchusa azurea |
 Serapias vomeracia |
 It was so windy I could not get a sharp photograph |
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 Grizzled skipper |
 Anthyllis tetraphylla |
 Weasel snout - Misopates calycinum |
 Galactites tomentosa |
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 Cricket |
 Blue |
 Farm |
 Ophrys spegodes? / incubacea? |
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 Ophrys incubacea |
 Ophrys tenthredinifera |
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| We heard the tram stopping outside the hotel and took a record shot. |
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