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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European Crane Fly - The European Crane Fly *Tipula paludosa* (Fr. cousin or Tipule des prairies) is the best known of hundreds of crane flies in the Tipulidae family of flie...
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More leaves - This yard belongs to another of our neighbors. They were out of town over the weekend, so I walked through with Tasha. This tree and it's beautiful red c...
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Chez moi en Caroline du Nord - As I said the other day, I'm feeling a little bit homesick for the town where I grew up. We lived on the North Carolina coast, three blocks (300 meters) fr...
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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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