A visit to the Serra Nevada looking for Butterflies.
Kate and Jim Day Two.







We had spent quite a while in the gardens and had met up with Juan Jesus the warden at the site who very kindly gave Kate and Jim a lift back up the slope to the car, we then dropped back down and took the old road down towards Guejar-sierra. Not far from the visitor Centre we stopped on the roadside and photographed some smart wildflowers which included Linaria aeruginea subsp aeruginea, Saxifraga erioblasta, Blue Hedgehog Broom (Erinacea anthyllis) and Onosma tricerosperma ssp granatensis. We continued on down the hill a short way and parked on the roadside and searched a small area of rocky grassland where we had a single spike of Lange's Orchid (Androrchis langei), Saponaria ocymoides, Lesser Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea trivia), Sage Skipper (Muschampia proto), Cleopatra (Cleopatra / Gonepteryx cleopatra), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala), Red-rumped Swallow
(Golondrina Dáurica / Hirudo daurica), Green Woodpecker (Pito Real / Picus viridis), Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius) and European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster).
We dropped further down the hill and made a stop near the river in the bottom of the valley, Jim and I had a stroll down to the water and found another Lesser Spotted Fritillary as well as a couple of Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri), a Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issoria lathonia), Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina), Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Dipper (Mirlo Acuático / Cinclus cinclus) and several Crag Martins (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris). We then dropped back down past Granada and back to the house.
Photographs from the top: Moroccan Orange-tip (Anthocharis belia), Provençal Fritillaries (Melitaea deione), 2x Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus F lyllus), 2x Saxifraga erioblasta, Onosma tricerosperma ssp granatensis, Linaria aeruginea subsp aeruginea, Lange's Orchid (Androrchis langei), 3x Lesser Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea trivia) and Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri).

We dropped further down the hill and made a stop near the river in the bottom of the valley, Jim and I had a stroll down to the water and found another Lesser Spotted Fritillary as well as a couple of Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri), a Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issoria lathonia), Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina), Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Dipper (Mirlo Acuático / Cinclus cinclus) and several Crag Martins (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris). We then dropped back down past Granada and back to the house.
Photographs from the top: Moroccan Orange-tip (Anthocharis belia), Provençal Fritillaries (Melitaea deione), 2x Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus F lyllus), 2x Saxifraga erioblasta, Onosma tricerosperma ssp granatensis, Linaria aeruginea subsp aeruginea, Lange's Orchid (Androrchis langei), 3x Lesser Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea trivia) and Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri).
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