FRIDAY
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From our window again |
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The Merit Hotel early in the morning.
One of the mini buses needed attention so we borrowed a driver and a
mini bus from the hotel.
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Around Erçek Gölü (Lake) an excellent birding
location
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Convolvulus galacticus
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Possibly a Lesser Marbled fritillary

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Astragalus noeana? |

Our leader worshiping the orchids? |
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Two black backed stilts |

Farmhouse |
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Loved the scum or whatever it was on the water
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The turkeys and geese were in fine voice |

Quite the most magnificent hyocyamus niger that I
have ever seen. The farmer cannot be worried about it
being a hazard to children and livestock |

Glaucium grandiflorum |
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Umbellifer very popular with beetles |
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Eremostachys
detail on the right |

Euphorbia with scarabs |

Astragalus
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Daisies |

Wonderful field of onopordons and papavers
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Scabiosa rotata |

Owners of the field |

Eremurus used in soups |
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