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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GiG" data-source="post: 3480756" data-attributes="member: 6690">10.05.2016Early morning walk before breakfast produced Dipper on the adjacent small river and a Lesser Whitethroat was seen and heard. Dimiter came out and pointed out some Chamois high in the hills, these were difficult to pick out amongst the trees. Back at the entrance of the hotel a scorpion, Euscorpius sp., was in the road. It was carefully, but successfully, moved to the side.Today was a travel day but it was decided to have another look for Wallcreeper first. Assen drove us back to the little layby while Dimiter searched elsewhere along the gorge. We were unsuccessful this time but enjoyed the wonderful scenery and observed some fascinating cloud patterns as they drifted overhead but after a while it was time to move on. We headed further up the road to meet Dimiter where we had great views of Alpine Swift that were nesting on the rock-face and fascinating behaviour of two birds squabbling, making lots of noise, as they then tumbled down before parting and flying off. This was noted on several occasions. Also on the rock-face were Crag and House Martins. The sun had broken through and it became hot and we had a group photo to include both of our tour leaders. 1.Dipper2.Euscorpius sp.3.Trigrad Gorge4.Alpine Swift5.Group photo</blockquote>