Following on from Friday’s visit to the corn fields around Coral Rubio south of Albacete I mentioned the amazing white fields. We photographed them and these are fields of poppies - amapola and their scientific name is papaver sonniferum. They are cultivated for medicinal purposes and all perfectly legal! Whatever, they are beautiful to see en masse.
When we were on the camino going towards Higueruela we again heard and saw Choughs - Chova. We had seen them in the area before and on this occasion we got incredibly close to about 25 plus birds. There is a part ruined building and they were perched and flying around it. We thought that it may have been used for nesting. With the adult birds were youngsters. They are wonderful to see close up as normally they are in the distance and flying away over ridges.
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