Monday, August 19, 2013

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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