Below- 2 legumes found between edge of neighbourhood and valley road. First near Medicago seedpod in spare patch of land between two buildings, in little raised island of veg. Also lots of hop clover nearby. Other clovers also blooming now including white clover.
flower above only found, so far, in this one place, by ramp on way down to valley road near lots of birds foot trefoil and blue pimpernel.
Also lots of blooms of pink butterfly orchid under pines and also quite a bit of Ophrys lutea but no other orchids. Asphodel , many of them producing healthy berry like fruit despite presence of Mirid bugs on almost every other one.
great tit calls and song, blackbird calls and song. Foraging hoodies and now plainly territorial in tree tops.. great spotted cuckoos noticed since middle of last week, calling, flying about lower part of pines and across north watercourse, but not today. Chukars also on lower hillsides, kestrels heard up from bat cave, usual area we have seen them. Stonechat male in lower east field still no swifts seen but may have heard scream of one midday/early afternoon today.
greenfinches starting to be vocally active lower pines, chaw calls heard today. chaffinches still about a few days back, a whole little group in bare tree in euc grove near cistern and collared dove on line in area.. still not cooing though did hear coos Gilboa area last week already. call of corn bunting in east field a few days back
Bulbuls, sunbirds, laughing doves, house sparrows active and vocal in garden/adjoining gardens.
SWIFTS finally heard 9th March just after sunset over east valley,high, didn't see them, just heard them. May have heard them a few days earlier over street briefly from my room but could'nt be completely sure do to lots of other street noise
10th March.. noticed first Campanula on hillside , south facing. C. hierosolymitana prob.
also more calls of great spotted cuckoo into dusk from east woods.
13 March
Sdei Trumot
I was pointed at a little egret that had just landed on that outer branch of the eucalyptus .has its crest plumes now.. sad the pic doesn't show it off well enough, need a more powerful lens for that.. only when zooming/reframing the pic at home did I notice I had also photographed a grey heron on the left.. hahaha!
also around the pool: several spur winged plovers, group of five pied kingfishers sitting on the dirt 'shore' other side of pool, one great white egret stalking along the edge of the pool, a grey heron standing on a little island, two black kites flying low.. a black stork up high and some kind of eagle soaring way higher.. two cormorants in the eucalyptus fluttering their gular pouches in the heat (just over 30 degrees C) ..at least two little egrets
Argaman:
bulbuls, house sparrows, sunbirds, a blackcap? in something like a bay laurel.
Swifts over town on way back. Lots of Judas tree, Cercis siliquastrum in bloom.
Thursday 14 March
Blackbird in song in forest towards dusk. Calls of great spotted cuckoo, one sighted flying from rubble pines across forepart of gazelle field to pine grove, Jay briefly spotted. Hoodies calls. Collared doves
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