Quite busy with university at the moment. Actually today's trip to Trnovski gozd (Trnovo forest) in Slovenia was a guided excursion with our botany professor. We had a quite good weather during the day and saw a good array of rare plant species, endemics and interesting stuff, for example
Primula carniolica,
Primula auricula (pic above) and
P. veris, Daphne cneorum,
Artemisia nitida,
Gentiana clusii and so on.
On the bird front the morning was quite poor with just a couple of
Cuckoos singing in the forest, along with a calling
Grey-headed Woodpecker,
Bullfinch,
Lesser Whitethroat,
Rock Bunting and commoner stuff. The hedges around the village of Lokavec yielded a singing
Icterine Warbler and a
Common Redstart.
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| Primula carniolica |
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| Primula veris |
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| Daphne cneorum |
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| Gentiana clusii |
The afternoon was more productive with 3 nice
LESSER GREY SHRIKES in the Vipava valley
(see below).
