Saturday, 16 June 2012

Good wildlife

There is a lot of wildlife we feel is too much and is encrouching (snakes, ants, flies etc) but there is some very interesting stuff around too.
There are hundreds of little lizards who hang out on all the walls. People who have been here a while find them quite boring but we still say 'lizard!' in excitement every time we see one.
Lizard on one of our fences

Perhaps more interestingly we see a lot of big birds from the house. We are not really sure what they are but they are ENORMOUS. Today we saw a smaller one attacking one of the bigger ones. Not sure why.
Taken from our front door - coming in for attack

Taken from our front door - attack!!
Also from the front door - what is it?
Closer view - Golden Eagle?

We saw 30 large birds circling opposite just before these ones flew close. But not sure if they were the same type, we suspect not as behaving a bit different - we think they were vultures but that this is not.
We also see a lot of deer but haven't managed to get a photo yet and we had a very brief glimpse of some wild boar in the wood above the house.

EDIT - Apparently the big bird is a Eurasian Griffon Vulture and the one mobbing it is a Common Buzzard

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