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Day 3: Fuente de Piedra

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Hit the road around 8 for short drive (2 hours) to Fuente de Piedra and the campsite Tom Waits (Ol’ 55 hit the spot), then Bill Evans and Tony Bennett giving a masterclass  on standards.

Got to Fuente de Piedra where I rented a mini-bungalow in the campsite on the edge of town for 3 nights. Welcomed by the frenzied twittering of Goldfinches and Serins. Fish fritada in the adjoining restaurant then off round the lake which – surprise! – has shrunk dramatically compared to my last visit, maybe 4 years ago. Some Flamingos still here but a long way off. 

Back at the bungalow it turned out that there was no hot water so they moved me next door, which turns out to have a bit more space.

It cooled down dramatically in the evening so I cranked up the heating and piled on the blankets for later. 

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    Jay

    lovely pics of cranes and stilts. Flamingoes are as distant as the pic I got of the very rare and special black-necked cranes in Bhutan! My excuse is that I didn’t have an enormous bird lens… I guess your excuse is that you didn’t want to swim across the lake… (!)

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      RB

      True, though it would be more wading through mud than swimming! The water level has dropped dramatically in the last year, after flooding in 2018 … and Flamingos need more water around them to nest safely, according to the rangers here.

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