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Wild asparagus and scrambled eggs for lunch
It took two hours of wandering along the tracks to pick this bunch of wild asparagus yesterday. It grows best on wild undisturbed ground and can be difficult to spot, even when you’re standing on it....
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Duckspotting
A first today. While we were outside gardening – as we don’t have a garden but a hillside, it would be more specific to call this task ‘pulling up 3ft tall weeds’ – a duck flew up the valley, following...
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It started with a peregrine
The signs were good from the start. As I stood at the kitchen window, waiting for the kettle boil, I saw a peregrine falcon soar over the roof. They are resident here, though not often seen. A quick...
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Bug-detecting
Out flamingo-spotting at the Fuente de Piedra lake, near Campillos, we were stopped in our tracks by this odd insect. It had six front legs but no hind legs, and was dragging itself along the sandy...
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The fluffiest Little Owl
A treat this morning, up early and driving the deserted roads high in the hills, we spot a little owl. So small it is almost toy-like, a round ball of fluff, probably fluffed up to keep warm. We have...
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The Doris Day approach to photographing nature
I hope the quality of my photographs on my blog is improving. Feeling that I was inadequately capturing the beauty of the valley with my point-and-shoot automatic digital camera, I took a photography...
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The sound of… an oriole in the plum tree*
* with apologies to Chris Stewart Our terrace hangs on the edge of the hillside, near to us are three fruit trees – one plum, two fig – and directly in front is a huge spreading walnut tree. The local...
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