A long weekend in Vence added a few year ticks but was not
as productive as I had hoped. There were good numbers of swifts overhead and
collared doves galore but very few singing warblers, and raptors were scarce. A
walk round Cap Ferrat produced yellow-legged gull and a singing garden warbler.
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| Cap Ferrat |
A walk up the gorge of the River Loup produced a golden eagle, a family of
dippers, crag martin and grey wagtail. This is a spectacular walk as the Gorge narrows in as you get higher.
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| A really spectacular walk |
We also visited a hilltop village called
Gourdon where there was a black redstart on a TV aerial and we were able to
look down on a peregrine falcon perched on a rocky outcrop 200m below us.
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| Gourdon is on the top of the pointed hill, apparenrently you can walk up to it! |
Looks lovely. Pity you didn't see more birds but I am sure you enjoyed it anyway.
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