Monthly Archives: January 2009

TADDERT, 27.1.39

Posted on 27 January by

Have just returned after spending a week at Taddert in the Atlas, about 95 km. from Marrakech. T is at 1650 metres elevation, ie. about 5000 ft. When one gets about 2000 feet above the plain (itself about 1000 feet … Continue reading →

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14-17.1.39 [1]

Posted on 17 January by

Four eggs (about 4 of the hens now broody). Saw a stork standing among the ibises the other day. It is enormous – English heron would look small beside it. Greenfinch evidently exists here as well as the goldfinch, both … Continue reading →

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13.1.39

Posted on 13 January by

Two eggs (135 since 26.10.38.) In the cleft of the rock on the N. side of one of the hills near hear° are growing a plant like angelica, a fleshy plant with round leaves & quantities of moss. Evidently these … Continue reading →

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12.1.39

Posted on 12 January by

Three eggs.

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11.1.39

Posted on 11 January by

One egg.

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9.1.39.

Posted on 9 January by

Two eggs. Saw large flock of green plover, apparently the same as in England. Clear & fine, afternoons fairly warm.

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8.1.39.

Posted on 8 January by

Three eggs.

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