Part of the lower loop.
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Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus). |
After getting the car through it's ITV (MOT) at the second attempt and a good visit to the Hospital I did some cleaning up on the terrace and then went for a walk around on Hacho once it had warmed up nicely.
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Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina). |
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Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina). |
I parked down by the bins and then walked up past the quarry and down to the first junction, on the south facing slope near the car I found the first of quite a few
Small Heaths (Coenonympha pamphilus), a female
Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua), several
Western Dappled Whites (Euchloe crameri),
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Aspitates ochrearia (Yellow Belle) x2,
Fan-lipped (Anacamptis collina) and
Somber Bee Orchids (Ophrys fusca / foresteri),
Broad-leaved Iris (Iris planifolia), Common Asphodel (Asphodelus aestivus),
Common Whitlowgrass (Erophila verna),
Bellis microcephala, Field Marigold (Calendula arvensis),
Amethyst Toadflax (Linaria amethystea),
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala),
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla),
Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Common Crossbill (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra) and Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).
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Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas). |
As I came along side the quarry I picked up
Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura), Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus) and
Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana),
Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum) and Wild Grape Hyacinth (
Muscari neglectum).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI34Esjy_JLLthPYI22KRCa4Wgl0C7qjTeVPmM8RHXIkg7bwDwCKavHSy4tI7-mvYJiBcQTEj_bW_b4an-yf600_feMmd4l5yo3h8bGccwKYgIXf4Y7b7mvjJ3vrTQk9yEgkojEObHQmA0aD4k4UoLeO82b9tTaZg7sv7GJxTKXGcdu-aI7VvXc4U7/s16000/14th-March-23-6.jpg) |
Somber Bee Orchids (Ophrys fusca / foresteri). |
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Somber Bee Orchids (Ophrys fusca / foresteri). |
Up around the pine woodlands and abandoned Almond groves there were good numbers of flowering Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis), more
Fan-lipped,
Somber Bee's and a few spikes of
Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera) along with a soaring
Northern Goshawk (Azor Común / Accipitor gentillis),
Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia),
Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes), 2x
Siskin (Lúgano / Carduelis spinus),
Long-tailed Tit (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus),
Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris),
Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera),
Large White (Pieris brassicae), Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), a single
Comma (Polygonum c-album) and 3x
Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIEt6tVo2OtBtF7YQGDi_sGz4vQVGStBL6I14VmvF3swmQ6tkF9A5WHQ7TfsFAFTTDx9-QSBwOd3KWExTS6idzOZ8oHjhPZRWgzdGQvBtapVll2Y4KPHNtTNK2jmL7oFvXLwaUFCqOtawLuwMHqf4XghTi_hbD-N_uN5DI_KsmeAglB72dp067Wne/s16000/14th-March-23-8.jpg) |
Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera). |
I turned around and walked back down the hill to the car, on the way I heard a Eurasian Eagle Owl (Búho Real / Bubo bubo) calling several times from on the nearby crags.
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Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis). |
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Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis). |
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