Author:mena
The Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus, measuring just 11 cm, is easily recognised by its striking black facial mask, which is slightly less noticeable in females and greyish in juveniles. This mask stands out sharply against the greyish-white colour of the head and extends from the lower forehead to the auricular region. The dorsal parts have a chestnut hue, paler in the female, with black borders. The belly is dark with diffuse reddish-brown markings on the chest. It is a […]
La palput en la montanya canta i diu la veritat: quan les cabres faran llana, les dònes faran bondat. I still remember the first time I saw a Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops, it must not have been 10 years old yet, it stopped in front of me. While keeping a safe distance, as it walked, it stuck its long beak into holes in the ground, looking for invertebrates such as earwigs, spiders, worms, crickets, caterpillars and others… I was amazed […]
On one of my excursions in the mountains, I found the ideal setting for a new photographic idea. In an old abandoned house among almond trees in the middle of the mountain, there lived a pair of barn owls Tyto alba. Right next to a window through which the owls could enter, there was a plum tree Prunus domestica, a deciduous tree native to the Caucasus, Anatolia and Persia, which the Romans introduced to Europe in the 2nd century AD. […]
Ascent of the Montcabrer peak on January 19th in the year of Our Lord 2025, a thousand years before the birth of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile, known as “the Brave” for his bravery in battles, also in that same year of 1025 was born Sancho Ramírez, king of Aragon who, during his reign, carried out the Reconquest of Zaragoza, establishing the foundations of the Kingdom of Aragon. The waning gibbous Moon will accompany us from the start […]
Pico de la Nieve in the Tous mountain range, on May 8th in the year of Our Lord 2010, the thirty-sixth year since the first episode of the series El Hombre y la Tierra was broadcast, and which also coincided with the year six hundred and ten since the Christian troops of King Henry IV of Castile reconquered the town of Estepona from the Muslims. The moon in its waning phase seeking conjunction in the following days with Mars and […]
Autumn transhumance route from Llosar to Salvasoria Autumn transhumance on October 19, 2024, the year seven hundred and fifty-two since King Alfonso X the Wise created the Honrado Concejo de la Mesta de pastores, which coincided these days with the passage of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) coming from the Oort Cloud, which accompanied us at dusk, after having wandered through space for more than 80,000 years. And so it is that every year, and since time immemorial, the end of […]
On a cloudy autumn morning, as the farmer arranges his farming implements, he hears a call in the sky that is unmistakable: grus, grus, grus… Without leaving the hut, he will smile and say to himself: “There go the cranes, the cold will soon arrive.”. The limping song emitted by cranes during their migratory journey is one of the most famous soundtracks of our nature. A sound so famous that it has even earned the species its scientific name: Grus […]
