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Life After Little Else......or Rambles with Alphie!

Liz Ju and Jack travel in our new campervan Alphie, to tour Orkney, or sometimes sooth.

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Alphie's Photos - A Rocha

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Four flamingoes in the pools down by the Alvor estuary

Meanwhile this ravaging of the countryside goes on on the hillside opposite, for the Algarve

The hoopoe just prior to being liberated, with a shiny new ring on its leg

A group of flamingoes

This bird has the most amazing crest of feathers, fore and aft like a mohican

It takes a lot of skill to hold a wild bird like this safely and securely without damaging it.

Photo opportunities for the many visitors to A Rocha, who come to watch and end up supporting the charity in its aims

The hoopoe is a show stopper

An attempt to escape

Bill-down in a plastic pot, the hoopoe is weighed on a tiny scale. Apparently all birds

Examining its little chest for muscle development and fat levels

The handler puts the index and middle fingers on either side of the bird

About the size of a hand!

That

Marcial, the chief bird-ringer, explaining his techniques

Two old planes regularly take off over the reserve, private pilots under instruction, we reckoned

About us

Who: Liz MacInally, Ju Randall, Bagshaw, Jack

Port: Stromness, Orkney

Orkney living
Change of direction
Endgame
Moscow to St Petersburg
Moscow to St Petersburg
Moscow with Zoya and Andrei
Kazan to Moscow
Ekaterinburg
Novosibirsk
Irkutsk

From the photo archive

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Trans Siberian Railway

Eastern European Trip

Liferaft Innards Revealed

The Big Journey - Horta to Falmouth

Lagos to Plymouth

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