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Saturday, September 29, 2012

2012-09-29 PEACHES !!!

 

 

We had a good crop earlier this year of the “pink” peaches, and these yellow ones just didn’t seem to be ripening, so we picked them and put the under-ripe ones in a bag with a banana, they were all either eaten or turned into peach pickle within a few days.

 

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2012-09-26 Martins/Martians !

 

 

We thought the invasion had started !

What were all these dots of light in the sky………well they turned out to be martins, hundreds of them doing a dance for us before returning to Africa.

 

It was the strange light in the sky too, which made it very…spooky !

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This is the first frame a video….when i get the youtube link, you will see it all !

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

2012-09-16 Day Six, Argeles-sur-Mer

 

Our last day, we went to see a “falconry” display……everything from parrots to vultures actually, but there were falcons as well ! No I cant name them all……I’ll leave that for you Steve !

 

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All these are behind bars, so pictures not so good, but all the birds were clean with lots (!) of flying space.

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This was quite a novel display of bird wingspans…..if you zoom in on the feather in the middle, you will see which bird it is !

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Coo…..Nice view from here !

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