Local patch once more.
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Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana) hypocromatic. |
I drove up to Hacho and had a walk from the Puddle down hill via the Pine woodlands where I found quite a lot of flowering spikes of
Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana) including a couple of
hypocromatic spikes. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifdp1IrXiAWCTotJieVtn709-ODf2t8w--H3N_d794yTHltIGHIcs-J5lRkg8ysTLiAf1Sa6ECMKG59nVnUPA4veVfEofT8IyJAeafKDYJ5ttTFHZm_zn8c8_48vbIGHYGrKq3qwBOEnElcHZR7KhdqWOyzKjIwJ7Mx2OqA7NWo52LrS05KeBv2DAg=s16000) |
Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana) hypocromatic. |
In the same area I found quite a few Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys fusca / foresteri) and in the trees above me several species of bird including Long-tailed (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus),
Blue (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus), Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus),
Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Coal Tit (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater),
Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Común / Certhia brachydactyla),
Common Crossbill (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra), Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki)
and
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala).
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Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana). |
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Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana). |
As I walked lower down towards the road I found
Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes),
Thekla Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa),
Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita) and Brambling (Pinzón Real / Fringilla montifringilla).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilNpG59W-3tbibijTMnJ1l_ke4wCN4pTgzpCQ81oEE8-bOB1Y8YkateLfHthfsuMWVreJCqcZuA1Rq5MRtFT-Dm83MI_EbGatY9NGLwAvn4CiviTk-emamiXzkiqINa9UUjd8FX3URdkWjCDJMvT1sw3z6mVXJQhUIhFI7TJW7bwhyoH9zDtbexy-_=w640-h550) |
Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys fusca / foresteri). |
I walked back up the south facing slope finding Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas),
Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus),
Erophila verna, Amethyst Toadflax (Linaria amethystea), Broad-leaved Iris (Iris planifolia) and Mallow-leaved Storksbill (Erodium malacoides).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhADRO6IXHTJVTaYiVrkDbAon3nqGIWyXeWd9pFtsLcWi-mpIWZjvTMvdRJVrwF8puh-NJBxvMQD2UhTD5FYVdWE1LHgj3XiqDVa9op1uMaWpAodhv12rOoWL7Z-GarL2UnYvqvRb7IPwrJmwYlT5qE-1f0HPa937flVmigZy8XW8ADgKng1-htBy2U=w640-h312) |
Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
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Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
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Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
I got back to the and drove down to the fields and did my usual walk along the Lucerne fields and then on along the road to the junction where I turned around, as I walked out I did not see anything of great interest but on the way back I notice 3 campo dogs on the far side of the fields which came across to the area where I usually see the Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) and flushed up 9 birds which I had not seen on the way out.
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Two of the dogs.
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As the fields were badly flooded back in November the farmer did not havest the Lucerne which has made finding the
Bustards very difficult.
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