No sign of Julie Andrews

Friday morning February 23rd. Went for a walk in the mountains above the village this morning, it was a simply wonderful day. Across the vast valley from us you could clearly see the snow on the peaks that surround the Lasithi Plateau, but where we were walking it was t-shirt weather. The hills were alive, not with the sound of music, but with birdsong everywhere, including warblers, blackbirds and chiffchaffs. Plus, high above, and even not so high at one point, griffons soared, their beady eyes searching hundreds of feet below for their next meal, no doubt. Their wingspan is truly awesome, and would easily outdo the width of our car’s windscreen by a considerable margin. So, here are the photos from that walk. Hope you like them:

In those last two in the gallery above, you can play ‘spot the wife‘ if you like, because she’s in each of them somewhere. You’ll probably have to click on them to open them in a new window though.

This next one (below) shows the mighty crag that is the sentinel standing above where we live. I have prescribed a faint circle near the top that you’ll see if you look closely, and that’s where a griffon vulture swooped in and landed on its nest a moment before I snapped the shot. I hadn’t taken the camera with me, so I snapped this with my phone, which was why I couldn’t attempt a better zoom shot I’m afraid. The vulture is just about discernible if you look closely enough. I don’t think it’s all that likely that any humans are going to be disturbing their nests on that cliff somehow.

Friday afternoon (late) February 23rd. The next series of shots were taken at around 4.30pm in our garden, and that of our neighbour. This time I took them with the camera, which was why I could zoom in and get some quality close-ups. Hope you like these too…