Spanish Springwatch

You may already have become bored with the Kate Humble and Simon King aspects of the blog and wondered why we need to mention the animals, birds, butterflies and flowers we are seeing but today was really special.

As we walked across the valley between Grazalema and Benaocaz a furry little fellow crossed our path with something in its mouth and disappeared into a hole under a rock. As we waited and watched a head appeared from the hole as if to say – “get orff my land!” There are no stoats in the country and so John’s problem with mixing stoats and weasels was weasily resolved and stoats are stotally different.

This was the high spot of a day which gave us orchids and fritillaries, butterflies (Copper, Fritillary, Red Admiral, Clouded Yellow, Small Blue and unidentified), birds (Chough, Lesser Kestrel, Griffon Vulture, Golden Eagle, Hopooe, Cuckoo, Robin, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Stonechat, Subalpine Warbler, Serin).