Lammergeyer eating a bone
Nice, short video of a lammergeyer (bearded vulture – Gypaetus barbatus) swallowing a bone. The images were recorded in Tremp, in the Pyrenees at “La Terret” observatory. Sent to me by...
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Vultures on the roads
Vultures in Catalonia are being increasingly spotted on the roads in search of roadkill, because of the paucity of their traditional sources of dead livestock: The EU prohibuts abandoning animal...
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Wolves expanding in Catalonia
The wolf appears to have firmly returned to Catalonia after an absence of more than 70 years. In the last few years a dozen or so animals have been gradually arriving from France (see below) and...
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Bat house in Ebro Delta
Huge bat house in the Ebro Delta, an ideal habitat for bats with plentiful food but for the absense of shelters. It was built in parts as a concerted atttempt to boost bat numbers in the Delta as a...
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Pyrenean bear cubs
Image taken by camera trap of female bear with two cubs born this summer in the Vall d’Aran in the Catalan Pyrenees. The adult bear is called Hvala, a Slovenian bear released in the Pyrenees in 2008....
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Young horseshoe whipsnake
We came on this very young horseshoe whipsnake this morning on the stone steps of Guadi’s Bodega Güell in El Garraf built as a winery for the slave-enriched Catalan industrialist Güell. Albert, our...
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Asian predatory wasp in Spain
Beekeepers and fruit orchard growers in Spain are facing the serious threat of Asian predatory wasp (vespa velutina nigritorax), which has spread from France. The species was first detected in the...
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Roger Deakin in the Albera
Roger Deakin wrote about the Albera mountains in his wonderful Wildwood, a journey around the woodlands of Britain and the world, published in 2006 just before his death. Autumn comes late to the...
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Albera cows
Just 400-odd Albera cows survive, living semi-feral and calving in the wild in the Serra de l’Albera in the Catalan Pyrenees. They are a short, stocky breed now protected by law and employed by the...
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The false mountains of Montserrat by Picasso
The false mountains of Montserrat in Ciutadella Park, Barcelona, Pablo Picasso, 1895-1896.
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