Hello. There are (at least) two rock doves hidden in this picture. Can you spot them? ๐
Lack of airstream too. Currently cycling at high temperatures and when there's no breeze I am dying on the climbs, overheating. Feels so refreshing if the incline becomes mellower or flat and you get some airstream.
Bit cheesy but some really great shots in there, i liked it.
This is the best close up i got, might take a better one later.
But I am sure that you are correct, Sedum caeruleum apparently is very typical for Sardinia and Corsica.
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Beautiful stuff.
Thank you, yes, that should be it!
Haha. Are you also in Sardinia?
That looks sweet. Is it some kind of high plateau?
It's all over the place here in Sardinia, makes it all look so nice.
Yeah hostels ain't it no more. Saw some cheap b&b options here, the one where I stayed at was also b&b. 35 / 40 โฌ.
Only passed one agriturismo looking place yesterday, but I was mostly completely alone on these gravel tracks would not make sense to open a business along those tracks, haha. Very lonely, nobody around, no farmers or farms either. But a lot of animals. Pigs, donkeys, cows, goats, sheep and horses. That was amazing. Never seen free roaming pigs like that, and in this landscape it was really cool to see. And all the animals had kids.
Intersting thoughts. Honestly I have a hard time to understand the hate some people have for pigeons, like real weird amounts of hate.
Always got to watch out for drempels, even in France ๐
Yeah I can post something when I'm done with the trip.
Now I have looked up agriturismo on Google maps, and most of them do not mention camping but they have rooms, even a pool, I am a bit surprised to see this now because i have passed "quite some" of them, they seemed to be littered all over the no-mans-inland and they all seemed camping ready and much more simple from the outside than what I see on google, some had a camping sign on them too. They were also all not listed in osm, not as a camp site at least.
I think they would expect you to eat there if you stay there, but I don't know if that is true.
I'm sure I will end up on one or the other, but not so sure if my sample size will be a good measure by the end of the trip.
Oh i remember that feeder, I was the one asking how you made it in the post you linked from my old account, haha.
I am sitting in a cafe, watching this collared dove bring sticks to the wisteria roof that covers the terrasse.
Crosposted from !camping@sh.itjust.works.
When I was about to break down my tent, six white Sardinian shepherd dogs showed up. Beautiful medium sized dogs. They were barking a bit, kept a bit of distance, eventually figured I was alright, then left. Guess they had work to do.
I left camp and cycled along this dirt track, which seemed to be a real promising panoramic path to go, when I ran into the group again. The sheep were right at the track and the dogs blocked my way. I stood there for a bit, tried what happened if I pushed my bike a bit more towards them, but they did not seem to like that whatsoever. Bummer. Well at least they left me alone through the night, i heard the sheep's bells and dog's barks all around me when i got here yesterday and was a bit worried they'd bark me out of the spot in the night.
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Anyway, i did not want to test how far they would go and decided to turn around and take a different route along some asphalt road, which was also real nice, nobody around but some cows, sheep and cork trees.
When I was about to break down my tent, six white Sardinian shepherd dogs showed up. Beautiful medium sized dogs. They were barking a bit, kept a bit of distance, eventually figured I was alright, then left. Guess they had work to do.
I left camp and cycled along this dirt track, which seemed to be a real promising panoramic path to go, when I ran into the group again. The sheep were right at the track and the dogs blocked my way. I stood there for a bit, tried what happened if I pushed my bike a bit more towards them, but they did not seem to like that whatsoever. Bummer. Well at least they left me alone through the night, i heard the sheep's bells and dog's barks all around me when i got here yesterday and was a bit worried they'd bark me out of the spot in the night.
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Anyway, i did not want to test how far they would go and decided to turn around and take a different route along some asphalt road, which was also real nice, nobodz around but some cows, sheep and cork trees.
Crosposted from !pigeon@mander.xyz
One of my favorite things about staying at official camp sites is that the birds in the area know that humans leave crumbs.
Lured some collared doves to my tent. I hope they'll have breakfast with me tomorrow.
Now i looked up what the difference between doves and pigeons is again. I thought there was no difference other than something etymological, dove obviously has Germanic roots, pigeon is French. In German and I believe Dutch they are all called doves (taube, Dutch: duif). But then I read an article which claimed this:
All species and breeds of pigeons have 80 chromosomes while all species and breeds of dove have 76 or 78 chromosomes.
But the feral's ancestors are called rock doves? Are they just named wrong, are they not doves?
French also has the colombe word for what I guess the English call doves, and the rock doves are also called colombe des rochers but i think mostly pigeon biset..
One of my favorite things about staying at official camp sites is that the birds in the area know that humans leave crumbs.
Lured some collared doves to my tent. I hope they'll have breakfast with me tomorrow.
Now i looked up what the difference between doves and pigeons is again. I thought there was no difference other than something etymological, dove obviously has Germanic roots, pigeon is French. In German and I believe Dutch they are all called doves (taube, Dutch: duif). But then I read an article which claimed this:
All species and breeds of pigeons have 80 chromosomes while all species and breeds of dove have 76 or 78 chromosomes.
But the feral's ancestors are called rock doves? Are they just named wrong, are they not doves?
French also has the colombe word for what I guess the English call doves, and the rock doves are also called colombe des rochers but i think mostly pigeon biset..
So this is now the 4th spot on the balcony it has chosen to sleep. I just woke it up when i put tomorrow's raisins on the blackbird's plate and took the photo. I saw it before from the inside, it looked like the whole brain was asleep, haha. It has been sleeping here most of the nights since it showed up. One night we scared each other when i went out and it went flying, but returned. I wish it would find a better place to sleep.
I have been giving it some food every day, very early in the morning (it wakes me up, cooing at 5:15). So it has a bit of power for the day to search for more. I did not give it food at any other times and it does not hang out on the balcony. That's good.
It runs into quite a bit of trouble with other pigeons, but it is pretty strong and stubborn, not loosing all of the fights. There is also some bully pigeon who i somehow follows it around a bit, also to the balcony, bugging it at its original sleeping spot. Really weird, no pigeon ever hung out there before.
I'll now be on holidays for a bit and i hope it will look for something else.
Or cowlick? This is the sibling of the young pigeon i posted yesterday. Stretching out my content a bit, haha.
Ah. It kinda looked to me like the terrain would fall off after the horizon.