'Le printemps est de retour, le percnoptere aussi'
April 26th 2008 When we found out that percnoptere means vulture, a morning near Tarascon being introduced to them by a local vulture-watcher seemed too exciting to resist. Luckily, he was a young professional who works for Nature Midi-Pyrenees, and in no way related to Bill Oddie.
As ever, wonderful scenery, lush and green at this stage in the spring: though we saw the vultures wheeling and circling some 2
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