Twittering again...
we've had cranes over at intervals all afternoon...
heading straight down the Aigronne Valley.
Both sides of us and just five minutes ago....
straight overhead.
Full blog entry later...
Blogs we like to read.
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Ussé... another château! - After lunch in Langeais, we drove on west and crossed the Loire. We wanted to go see the Château d' Ussé,which the guidebooks call a fairytail castle. We ...
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The new vines - Remember the vineyard parcel that was planted this past spring? Here it is now. It's still green, but soon the leaves will drop. I don't think it will ge...
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Iodine Bolete - [image: Iodine Bolete Hemileccinum impolitum, France.] Recently in the grounds of the Chateau de Chenonceau I came across a colony of large bolete mus...
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Cardinal Beetles Pyrochroidae - Cardinal Beetles are a small family of bright scarlet beetles. The larvae are rather flattened and live under bark, predating other insects. Larva of a ca...
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The circle of fire - part 1: closing the circle - My interest in the French transatlantic liner *La Touraine* started with a small piece of newsprint that we found hidden in the masonry of our chimney. Tha...
Guided Tours in a lovely limo!
Susan&Simon from Days on the Claise have another blog, Loire Valley Nature, which is "designed to be used as an English language natural history web resource for lowland central France."
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
Please note:
The early listings were only a few observations with an entry and usually no record of numbers!
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
4 comments:
We've had cranes all arvo too -- I reckon maybe a thousand went through.
They're still coming even in the dark
We have also had masses of them going over. Diane
Great... do you report your observations to Grus Grus, Diane?
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