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DAY5: 26th May
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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 |
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Sainfoin |
Chicory |
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Pallenis spinosa |
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Convolvulus |
Snapdragons |
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Pinnacles of Aguero, we were walking too slowly to complete Peter's walk and so turned back |
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Perched on the Pinnacle |
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Bitumaria bituminosa |
Wild Rose |
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Chicory |
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Vetch |
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Grasshopper in a poppy hybridum |
Cave in the Pinnacle of Aguero |
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 Sainfoin |
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 Jasminum fruticans |
 Hawkweeds |
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 Aguero village |
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Beetle |
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Papaver Dubium |
Pink Convolvulus althaeoides |
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 Aguero village |
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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
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 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 |
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 Two Beetles |
Black Kite. We heard, and saw Turtle Doves through the telescope |
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 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 |
C Marsh Fritillary |
 Orchis Apifera |
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 Rose |
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 Female Blue |
 Cephalanthera damasoni |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Alpine Chough |
 Choughs nesting on the rocks
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 Blue Rock Thrush on the castle wall |
 Euphorbia characias |
 View over the walls |
 Pisum sativum |
 A natural rock Garden |
 The natural defences |
Sideritis hirsuta |
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 Silene ameria? |
 Adonis annua |
 Anagallis monelii? |
