Another wet visit to the Patch.
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| A damp looking view across the Lucerne Fields. |
I started by going down to get some paint as Charlie a guy who used to live a couple of door down the hill is coming to do the one big wall of the house that I don't like doing and the ridges as I think my time for crawling around on the roof is done with 😀😀😀😀
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| Two distant Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus). |
I then went to the supermarket before going to the spot along the Lucerne fields where I can park and scan from the car without being in anyone's way.
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| The Rain arrived again. |
Whilst I was there I saw 2x
Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), 8x Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), a very smart looking male Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus) my first of the year, Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica),
Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum),
Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti),
European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and
Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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| Salvia verbenaca. |
I returned to the house and then later when there there was a gap in the rain I went for a walk, a short one partly as my leg was still giving me a bit of a problem and it also looked like it would be raining again before long.
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| Conical Orchid (Neotinea conica). |
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| Conical Orchid (Neotinea conica). |
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| Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis). |
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| Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis). |
As I walked I recorded
Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla),
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia),
Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada),
European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula),
Conical (
Neotinea conica), Fan-lipped (
Anacamptis collina),
Southern Early (Orchis olbienis),
Giant (Himanthoglosum Robertiana),
Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys
lupercalis),
Purple Bugloss (Echium plantagineum), Broad-leaved Iris (Iris planifolia), Field Marigold (Calendula arvensis) and
Salvia verbenaca.
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| Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina) var. flavescens. |
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| Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina). |
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| Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys lupercalis). |
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| The arriving hale storm, better get back to the car. |
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