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| Mali Snežnik (left) & Veliki Snežnik (right) |
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| Beech Fagus sylvatica turning into autumn colours |
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| Volovja reber |
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| Looking towards the Snežnik forests |
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| Landscape shot of Volovja reber (click to enlarge) |
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| Common Buzzard Buteo buteo vs Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus |
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| Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus passing very low |
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| Campanula cespitosa |
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| Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus |
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| Gentianella sp. |
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| Jay Garrulus glandarius carrying an acorn |
First day of autumn! Very pleasant weather today with sunny skies and a little breeze, with quite low temperatures for the season (quite cold in the uplands). Spent the morning staring at the blue skies at Volovja reber (Ilirska Bistrica) and the afternoon in the Snežnik's forests.
Birds of note included:
Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes (3), Raven
Corvus corax (+15), Buzzard
Buteo buteo (2),
Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus (1), Crested, Coal & Willow Tit (
Lophophanes cristatus, Periparus ater, Poecile montanus),
Hobby Falco subbuteo (1), Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus (2), Tree Pipit
Anthus trivialis (1), Wheatear
Oenanthe oenanthe (1), Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilus (2), Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhula (2), Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra (20), Goldcrest
Regulus regulus, Eurasian Treecreeper
Certhia familiaris.
Also a
Red Deer Cervus elaphus (stag) rutting in the middle of the afternoon and Jays
Garrulus glandarius carrying acorns a bit everywhere. Typical scenes of the early autumn.
