Thursday, July 26, 2018

Back in Portugal, on a trip through the interior...







Piódão




Serra da Estrela












Corvus corax


First ski lift on a landfill?






Trail #1:  Rota do Poço do Inferno


The Iberian frog Rana iberica at trail #1.


European bee-eaters Merops apiaster near Sabugueiro, Serra da Estrela


Common House Martin Delichon urbicum nests in Belmonte


Cork oak Quercus suber, my favourite tree in Portugal, near Bogalhal Velho





Bogalhal Velho, abandoned medieval village


Train ride from Regua to Pocinho, along the Douro river
















Old and abandoned train at Pocinho train station




Waiting room in Pocinho station


Turtle doves Streptopelia turtur on August 18, the first day of the fall hunting around Figueira, Lamego. About to go extinct in NW-Europe. Around us many were shot that day. Bullets were flying over our heads.


"O Papa-figos", the "fig-eater" (Golden oriole Oriolus oriolus)

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