Today we visited Spain 's best and wildest park. There is one tiny village that has been converted into the National Park headquarters. It differs from most Spanish towns because the houses are made of stacked slate rather than large cut rocks or whitewashed surfaces.
Most of the park is inaccessible to allow for undisturbed nesting sites for the many vultures and raptors, but two roads are open and they are dotted with viewing sites, mostly of rocky crags covered with vulture and raptor nests.
and on their nests, a nesting Perigrine falcon pointed out to us by the park naturalist, and one of two rare and endangered black stork nests.
Bird of the Day!
Nearby a group of Park rangers arrived on a boat with a man made nest. They proceeded to dismantle the other black stork nest and move it up slope because they were worried that the recent flooding would inundate the original nest.
Leo also took some good pictures of
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We climbed up to the obligatory castillo for a great panoramic view.
We came home to have supper at our lodgings. The hotel also serves as an albergue for pilgrims walking the Camino from Seville to Santiago de Compostela At dinner we met two pilgrims from far away Grand Forks and Christina Lake, BC.
Janet had lots of questions as she hopes to do the Camino herself someday. They say the last week has been a challenge because of the rain. Part of the route has been flooded and our host has been ferrying pilgrims across with his 4x4.
This sounds like more fun than the last few posts :)
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