Marsh Tit |
Red-breasted Flycatcher |
Panorama from Cafe Panorama. Seeg |
Painted Lady |
BlackCap. Female is Brown cap. |
Water Lily. Alatsee |
Red Darter |
Common Buzzard |
A chance sighting of Roebuck |
Song Thrush |
Lesser Whitethroat. |
Goldfinch |
Firecrest |
Male Blackcap. |
Male Blackcap |
Common Lizard. |
Marsh Tit |
Marsh Tit. |
Scotch Argus |
Dark Green Frittilary |
A single Dipper |
Oops. Now there are two. |
Great Crested Grebe |
Taking the sun at Alpenrose. |
Blue Damsellfly. |
Deep Gorge in Upper Martell. |
Cyril teh Squirrell. |
Poses nicely |
Then leaves. |
Spotted Nutcracker. |
Looking up to Nino corsi. |
Cover picture. |
We approach Nino Corsi for lunch. |
Looking back at our Hotel. |
A friendly toad at altitude. |
His eye reflects us. |
Looking down on Nino Corsi. |
A lovely valley at 2600 metres. |
Pied Flycatcher. (f) |
Kaiserscharm. Fred's favourite. |
Spotted Nutcracker |
Albergo Lago Rosso. Our next digs. |
The view. |
We are now in Brenta NP. |
Enjoying a walk. |
The view down. |
The lake |
This wren posed nicely. |
again and |
Again. |
Silver washed Fritillary |
Silver washed Fritillary. |
Common Frog. |
Shepherds Fritillary. (f) |
Brimstone at rest. |
Bush Cricket |
Bush Cricket. |
Another Frog. Very young. |
Cute really. |
Albergo "Gran Paradiso". |
A path up the mountain. |
We pass this waterfall. |
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Onwards and upwards |
Thats our Albergo down there. |
Zoomed in you can see our car. |
Time to return. |
The path is cut through the wood. |
Going down is NOT easier! |
Just looks like it. |
A Copter was lifting supplies. |
White Wagtail. |
A splendid Waterfall. |
Meadow Saffron. |
Two Chamois. Honest! |
Ibex. |
Around 40 in the herd. |
Dark Green Fritillary |
Pearl bordered Fritillary |
Piedmont Ringlet |
Queen of Spain Fritillary. M & F. |
Olive Skipper |
A Marmot keeps a lookout. |
A Common Blue perches on Fred's finger. |
It won't leave. |
Quite friendly. |
A Marmot checks on us. |
If you sit quiet they can be quite curious. |
A Shield Bug joins in on my Binoculars. |
Quite nicely marked. |
A female Blue or maybe Argos. |
Another poseur. |
Both Butterflies vie for my Boot top. |
The Marmot just looks on. |
Alpine Blackbird. Note dark beak. |
Cock Black Redstart. |
The Marmot has had enough. |
One last survey and he leaves. |
Collared Flycatcher. |
Another one. |
Black Redstart |
Lovely colouring. |
An interesting pattern on this spider. |
View up from our room. |
The way up was tricky. |
A friendly Stoat pays his first visit in Leysin. |
Paola joins us for a day. |
Swiss Sheep. |
Group photo. |
The Stoat feels left out. |
In all we had four visits from this lovely creature. |
Posing so nicely. |
He came quite close. |
Very curious creature. |
Best views I have ever seen. |
The view from our Patio at Leysin. |
A Kestrel in Karl-Heinz's vinyard. |
Our cottage at Alf. |
Woodland Brown. |
Common Lizard. |
Common Lizard. |
Karl-Heinz and Elke's Weinhaus. |
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