Greek Wildlife

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Happy Christmas!

A large handful of colourful postcards from the Mani Peninsula taken in Spring 2019, bringing back a kaleidoscope of memories from one of the loveliest places on the planet.

Agios Nikolaos Άγιος Νικόλαος
Mani olive grove
Bull, cow and calf
Neo Itilo Νέο Οίτυλο
Nettle-tree butterfly
Anemone hortensis subsp. pavonina
The deep Mani – here the characteristic Phrygana scrub dotted with Euphorbia dendroides dominates the landscape
Church window on the deep Mani
Young wild boar
Milea Μηλιά
Black Bee Fly Thyridanthrax atratus
Black-veined white
Lagkada Λαγκαδά
Painted lady
Church near Milea Μηλιά
Garganey flock
European wheatear
Red-rumped swallow
Yellow wagtail
Vathia Βάθεια
Female blackcap
Church mural
Monemvasia back street
Spring flowers
Greek Owlfly Ascalaphus libelloides macaronius
Cruise ship leaving Monemvasia
Ship wreck near Gytheio Γύθειο
Greek Rock Lizard Hellenolacerta graeca
Bee hives
Male goshawk displaying with a large female
Onosma frutescens
The little port of Agios Dimitrios Άγιος Δημήτριος
Southern festoon Zerynthia polyxena
Green underside blue female Glaucopsyche alexis
Onosma frutescens and Peloponnese rock bellflower Campanula topaliana ssp. topaliana
Blue tit and spring blossom
Small church in the hills
Red admiral and spring flowers
Sheep dog
Dung beetle
Velvet pink Petrorhagia dubia
Spring flowers
Anemone blanda
Dwarf iris
Sawfly orchid Ophrys tethredinifera
Mirror orchid Ophrys speculum
Endemic catchfly Silene integripetala
Italian man orchid
Sheepdog guarding his flock
Rock nuthatch
Short-toed eagle
Cuckoo wasp species near a huge mason bee Chalicodoma parietina colony at Exo Nimfio Έξω Νυμφίο
Hollyhocks by the sea
Raven
Theatre at Platsa Θέατρο Πλάτσας
Long-beaked crane’s-bill Erodium gruinum
Pink butterfly orchid
Hoopoe
Lagia Λάγια
Heath fritillary
Flower beetle species
Wild gladiolus
Mallow skipper
Pirgos Πύργος
Church mural
Church in the Viros Gorge
Red darter dragonfly species
Sooty copper
Bee fly species
Large velvet ant Mutilla europaea
Woodcock orchid
Reinhold’s Bee Orchid Ophrys reinholdii
Glass Lizard Pseudopus apodus
Bee hives resting on old tyres
Chiding pink Petrorhagia glumacea
Orobanche ramosa
Small heath
Cyclamen
Ophrys lutea
Cleopatra
Messenian Squill Scilla messeniaca
Sardinian warbler
Green-underside blue male
Barbary nut Moraea sisyrinchium
Long-tailed tit
Black redstart
Leopard snake
Eastern bath white
Short-toed eagle
House martins picking up mud
Swallowtail
Rove beetle Ontholestes murinus – a dung specialist
Glanville fritillary
Eulasia pareyssei
Feral kittens
Cow in an olive grove
Swallowtail
Long-tailed blue
Long-tailed blue
Montpellier snake Malpolon monspessulanus insignitus
Linum pubescens
Robber fly on the hunt
Large fly species
Sawfly orchid Ophrys tenthredinifera
Blue rock thrush on the beach
Agios Nikolaos Άγιος Νικόλαος
The beach at Agios Nikolaos Άγιος Νικόλαος
The point at Agios Nikolaos Άγιος Νικόλαος

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