Kiersten Rowland

Adventures, wildlife, and life in the Alpujarras

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Kevin and the Bearded Vulture

Kevin and the Bearded Vulture

A short post about our encounters with a Marmot (we named him Kevin) and a Bearded Vulture, who didn't stick around long enough to name! In the last week of our stay in the Pyrenees, we planned a 3-da...

Birds, Nature, Pyrenees, Marmot, Bearded Vulture, Flowers, Spain

The day I met a Black Woodpecker

The day I met a Black Woodpecker

A brief account of an encounter with a Black Woodpecker, a bird that felt almost mythical until that moment, just a dark shape screeching through the trees.

Birds, Pyrenees, Black Woodpecker, Booted Eagle, Spain