Thanks for the credit, that's very sweet! What a dazzling array of rigorous rocks and luminous leaves! Do the Alpine choughs have red legs and beaks? The choughs we're sometimes lucky enough to see in Pembrokeshire (West Wales) do, but I don't know how closely related they might be. They seem like interesting characters, very social and perhaps prone to showing off!
Thanks for letting me borrow it! As for the choughs, they have yellow beaks and I guess you could say the legs are red. It is indeed closely related to the Cornish/red-billed chough :) I've never seen one of those, so I'm not sure how similar their demeanors are, but the alpine choughs are definitely very social and active.
Thanks for putting this together Anne. I'm glad you are so attuned to the natural world, and that you've learned to share your discoveries and experiences so widely and effectively.
Thanks for the credit, that's very sweet! What a dazzling array of rigorous rocks and luminous leaves! Do the Alpine choughs have red legs and beaks? The choughs we're sometimes lucky enough to see in Pembrokeshire (West Wales) do, but I don't know how closely related they might be. They seem like interesting characters, very social and perhaps prone to showing off!
Thanks for letting me borrow it! As for the choughs, they have yellow beaks and I guess you could say the legs are red. It is indeed closely related to the Cornish/red-billed chough :) I've never seen one of those, so I'm not sure how similar their demeanors are, but the alpine choughs are definitely very social and active.
This is so beautiful, Anne. Thank you for the photographs and narrative. We New Englanders think we have the best of autumn but this p[roves us wrong.
Thanks for reading, Frances! I think there are excellent autumn palettes in a lot of places, just different :)
Wow! Just ... Wow!
Also, I spotted the spent umbels of someone in Apiaceae in the second pic of the second hike. Do you know who it was?
Your guess is as good as mine, but Plant Net suggests Laserpitium siler or Laserpitium gallicum, both rather endemic to European mountains!
Oh cool, a genus I've totally never heard of! L. siler is known as "Laserwort"! What a cool name!
Kind of wild isn’t it!
What a lovely genus! https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MediaSearch&search=Laserpitium&type=image
Stunning photos!
Thank you!
Awe inspiring! Thank you for sharing the videos and amazing photos.
Thanks for reading!
What a glorious part of the world! Thanks for sharing xx
My pleasure!
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your experience.
My pleasure!
Thanks for putting this together Anne. I'm glad you are so attuned to the natural world, and that you've learned to share your discoveries and experiences so widely and effectively.
Thank you Karl! So happy to share ☺️
So beautiful- words and photos!