Aisa and Hecho valleys, Parque Natural de los Valles Occidentales

NB Arrrows

After a twisting ride we walked up the Aisa valley in the National Park admiring the flowers, birds and a marmot. We reached a cliff, which most members clambered around to get higher, some others preferring to rest and sun bathe until they returned.

Oxlips

Valariana

Russet Bumble Bee, Athony's special interest

Geraniums

Cliff Face tree

Elderflower Orchid

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Spring Gentians

White Pyrenean  Buttercups

Both forms of Elderflower Orchid

Gentian Acaulis,Getiana angusifolia

Gentiana Verna, Spring Gentian

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Elderflower Orchids

Rock face

Enlargement

David looks for an angle on the oxslips

Valariana

 I missed the Dipper

Primula

Saxafrage

Androsace, centres change colour when fertilised.

The Field Cricket that, having bitten Phil, rushed away

Another Globularia

White Pyrenean Buttercups

Veronica

Helen sitting down on the job

Androsace

Narcissus Asturiensis

Towards the cliff

Forget-me-not

Forget-me-not

Early Purple Orchid

A local collecting mushrooms. Seps?

King Cups in the stream

The side of the Aisa Valley

Above the Snow Line, but nothing in the snow melt

The Group starts the descent (long lens)