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 DAY5: 26th May 

Note Aguero, Riglos, Murillo and the Castillo de Loarre

Pinnacles of  Riglos. We set off round its base for a walk our host Peter had found to an ornate Chapel.

Dead Nettle

 

Sainfoin

Chicory

Pallenis spinosa

Convolvulus

Snapdragons

Pinnacles of Aguero, we were walking too slowly to complete Peter's walk and so turned back

Perched on the Pinnacle

 

Bitumaria bituminosa

Wild Rose

 

Chicory

Vetch

 

Grasshopper in a poppy hybridum

Cave in the Pinnacle of Aguero

 

Sainfoin

Jasminum fruticans

Hawkweeds

 

Aguero village

 

Beetle

Papaver Dubium

Pink Convolvulus althaeoides

Aguero village

Next we drove to the start of the Aguero Nature Trail, from  Aguero to Murillo de Gallego. Thankfully Peter drove around to the end so that our leaders could be taken back to collect our vans. One way was enough for me!

Peter had prepared a picnic lunch for us by the spring at the end of the trail.

Broomrape, Orobanche rapum-genistae

Anthyllis montana

 

On the Nature Trail which is part of a much longer walk. Google "Aguero Nature Trail" and translate for more info!

Sanguisorba

The Olive Grove where we saw the Turtle Doves

Purple Broomrape

Two Beetles

Black Kite. We heard, and saw Turtle Doves through the telescope

Poppies

Soapwort, silene officialis

Honeysuckle Recurvus

Purple Broomrape

Glow-worm nymph

Beetles on a Scabius

Nottingham Catchfly

Buttercups

Cistus albidus

On the Nature Trail, NB Waymark

Painted Lady

Paronychia nivea

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Marsh Fritillary

Orchis Apifera

Rose

Female Blue

Cephalanthera damasoni

Wood White

Marsh Fritillary Caterpillar

Spanish Fritillary

Mallow

Flomis

Sedum Dasyphyllum

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Adonis Blue

Margaret, amazed by the D-I-Y castles

Murillo de Gallego, village at the end of the Nature Trail

A solid door

Agro Pub?

Spanish Fritillary

A large brown cricket

The Church, Santa Eulalia de Gallego, above the cafe at the end of the trail where we had coffee and ice cream and waited for the vans, surrounded by Basque school children.

We then drove on to the Castillo de Loarre

 Castillo de Loarre. We didn't really have time to look round inside.

Red Vetch, Lathyrus cicera

The Castillo de Loarre Keep

Alpine Chough

Choughs nesting on the rocks

 

Blue Rock Thrush on the castle wall

Euphorbia characias

View over the walls

Pisum sativum

A natural rock Garden

The natural defences

Sideritis hirsuta

Silene ameria?

Adonis annua

Anagallis monelii?

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