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Extremadura - La Serena
… or how we were looking in vain for European rollers and great bustards! 
May 22-26 2010
If also springtime blossom was nearly over, not so …
… the springtime feelings:
Wild artichoke:
A water snake on its way to …
… take a sunbath:
"Sunbath? I had enough sun today!" this jackdaw is complaining:
A mistle thrush looking far away for food on the floor:
That we just here in this bleak cliff scenery met a little ringed plover astonished us very much. Just to nice how he was sitting in his nets:
A barn swallow mother provides its impatient children:
And a sedge warbler warbles skillful its nice song:
Everywhere many woodchat shrikes were to be seen, if also …
… a little far away:
Also the southern gray shrike suffers from the heat, but …
… is very much awake seeing prey:
And sometimes also a sunny day in the Extremadura finds its end and all animals can recover in the cool night air from the days heat:
Despite we didn't see any great bustards it was a most wonderful trip! Memories of this wonderful uninhabited landscapes are permanent and maybe we try our luck again there at another time of the year!
Best regards
Birgit Kremer