Saturday, June 29, 2013

Catalonia...#4

A large lake at Banyoles was a little disappointing after the excitement in the upland meadows, but witha bit of work a few things were found...

Estany de Banyoles
Best birds here were Black Kite and 3 Great Reed Warblers. Odonata were represented by Red viened Darter, Norfolk Hawker, Lesser Emperor and Copper Demoiselle.
Copper Demoiselle

Short-tailed Blue
A tiny Short tailed Blue butterfly was egg laying on a vetch near the trackside where Weaver's Fritillary put in an appearance for the list...

Weaver's Fritillary

1 comment:

Warren Baker said...

Looking at this and the previous posts Stewart, I think it shows what a poor countryside we have here!