CTR Veniata, San Pedro de las Hererias

It felt so good to finally get a Lobo on this board. We had 3 and then 7 during our stay.

The base for our weeks wolf watching trip to Spain. A perfect location being just a mile away from the Pista de Linarejos. Antonio junior and senior looked after us with a spotless room, heating (a necessity!), lovely home cooked food and endless wolf information.

Spain snaps

We made a trip into Portugal on Friday, about 40 miles away to the town of Braganca. As you can see, no snow ! It was so much warmer. The town had died though with most shops and houses derelict, just simply abandoned and left to the elements. The main square had a look of home about it with the cidar drinkers laying around. Quite sad to see really.

Spanish Snow

Our week was going so well..........until this arrived silently on Tuesday night !
It made rural driving almost impossible, infact for a full day we couldn't get up the hill out of our village. This snow wasn't forecast which makes the spanish weather forecasters as reliable as ours ! The snow continued throughout Wednesday and stopped Thursday lunchtime, depositing a good 4". There was no way our little car would get up 'wolf track', so on Thursday at 6am with the temperature at -7, we set off to walk it. No luck with the wolves, infact it was very difficult to find any landmarks and no movement was obvious. So, with near hypothermia we beat a retreat back for breakfast.

Richardson's Canada Goose

A trip to Frampson to see this goose which was easy to find amongst the other Canadas and Greylags. One of the photos show it next to a Canada Goose and the size difference is obvious. This goose preened for a good two hours, no feather was left untouched! A red crested pochard swam in, two quality birds in one shot !

Frampton Marsh

 

Happy Birthday Lucy

Happy Birthday Lucy. Our beautiful daughter is 25 years old today !