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WEDNESDAY 30TH |
We left the hotel for a trip round the south of the lake. We visited a dwarf oak woodland at Tugkoyn to see a peony on the land behind a dwelling; then on to the south shore of Lake Van with flowers in a damp woodland |
 Plants in a damp area |
 Roof access |
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 Aethionema grandiflora |
 Dactlyorhiza umbrosa |
 Dactlyorhiza umbrosa |
Paeonia mascula - note that beetles have eaten a section of the stamens |
 Greater Butterfly Orchid found in an oak wood |
 A spectacular ferula orientalis |
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 More roof access |
 Small boy |
 Front door |
The traffic was held up, so we checked the flora alongside the road and were rewarded. |
 Bee hawk-moth at roadside |
 Trefoil |
 Gundelia tournefortii |
 Cinnabars on plantain and forget me not
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 Trucks on their way to Iran |
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 Praying Mantis |
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 Trifolium physodes |
 Campanula glomerata |
 Female blue |
 Cephalanthera kotschyana  |
 Basak and an aristolochia bottae |
 Picnic site under a walnut tree |
 Cephalanthera kotschyana |
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 Orchis coriophora - the bug orchid |
 Bumble on yellow rattle |
 Cricket |
 Caterpillar |
 Well camouflaged spider |
Ranunculus |
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 We drove on to the Merit Hotel |
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