Mount Nanos

 

We spent most of the morning looking for White-backed Woodpecker in the forest slopes of Mount Nanos with very little reward. So we headed up the high road to the top , we got to 3500 feet and had a good look round , good numbers of migrating butterfly's included Clouded Yellow , Red Admiral and Brimstones and around the tracks and boulders we found Wall Brown , Queen of Spain Fritillary and Small Heath. There was a fine assortment of calling grasshoppers and crickets , and a couple of Griffon Vultures drifted west. The view was extraordinary with Croatia , Italy , Venice the Alps including Mount Blanc and the Matterhorn , Julian Alps and the coast of Slovenia

  More Griffon Vulture headed west with 15 individuals seen , 3 Sparrowhawks , 2 Buzzards , 27 Raven, 1 Peregrine  , 1 Golden Eagle , 1 Marsh Harrier  and a surprise Black Woodpecker over high west, 100's of finches headed north mainly Chaffinch and 20 Meadow Pipits were also present with 4 Black Redstarts......