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| Red Kite - common and easy to see here, unlike in Devon. My duaghters can now confidently identify them and pick out the Black Kites when they come by. |
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| Myosotis rehsteineri. A Lake Constance endemic now, apparently extinct at all its former locations in the Alps.... |
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| ...determinedly a non-competitor, this is a plant of the strandline, flowering twice a year when the water levels permit... |
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| ...this is the biggest patch of it that I've yet seen. A low-growing, yet startlingly blue and showy plant... |
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| ...and although not good at holding out in the face of competing plants, it has a tough little niche to survive in. More on this plant - and others - later. |
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| Sympecma paedisca - Siberian Winter Damsel. The more eastern of the winter damselflies in Europe and so far the only individual of the species that I've seen. |
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| A spectacular non-native: Giant Knotweed, Fallopia sachalinensis. |
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| Crocus meadow in the Brandnertal, Austrian Alps |
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| Full of Crocus vernus ssp albiflorus and Soldanella alpina. Carex caryophyllea and an Alchemilla in there too for the connoisseurs |
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| Yet another crocus meadow. Bit boring really (not!) |
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