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FRIDAY

1ST

From our window again

 

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.

 

Around Erçek Gölü (Lake) an excellent birding location

 

Convolvulus galacticus

Possibly a  Lesser Marbled fritillary

 

Astragalus noeana?

Our leader worshiping the orchids?

Orchis pseudolaxiflora colour forms

Two black backed stilts

Farmhouse

Loved the scum or whatever it was on the water

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

Umbellifer very popular with beetles

 

 

 

Eremostachys

detail on the right

Euphorbia with scarabs

Astragalus

Daisies

Wonderful field of onopordons and papavers

Scabiosa rotata

Owners of the field

Eremurus used in soups

 

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