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Travel report Extremadura / Cáceres May 14 - 17 2009
Bird protection and human desaster
Very positive is to mention, that in the Extremadura really each cable is equipped with 'bird-sight-spirals' and …
… also the power poles are secured!:
The Spaniards had shown us the hidden way to the garbage dump of Cáceres, where hundreds of bird (storks, black kites, griffon- and monk vultures are circling or looking for food!:
And we were as if struck by lightning as we saw how, due to a gust of wind, a cloud of plastic trash flew in the same thermal bubble in which the birds circled, high up into the sky!
So it is no wonder to see pictures like that!:
Landscape
For hours we drove on such ways where not a human soul is to be seen, but …
… again and again cheerful stork-clattering is to be heard!:
These huge fields are for sure the home of the cranes during winter!:
If this house could tell …!:
An acquaintance said years ago:"I like landscapes like the Extremadura, where you can with the metal-tip of an umbrella make fire when you beat the rocks!".:
But there is also surprising much water, like the reservoir of Salor!:
The Salor River winds itself through the rocky landscape before it …
… is dammed!:
An einigen Stellen führten Wege zum Fluß runter, aber wir hielten uns zurück, denn durch das Fernglas hatten wir gesehen, wie dort viele Störche und Graureiher friedlich an den Ufern nach Futter suchten. Und diese Idylle wollten wir nun wirklich für ein paar Fotos nicht stören. Viel näher hatten wir die zahlreichen Blauelstern, aber von diesen huschenden Gesellen gelang mir nicht ein halbwegs scharfes Bild! 
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