But a good few days, critter-wise!
Freshwater Crab, Potamion potamios kretaion. One of two found crossing the road and helped across to the other side. Not that either was particularly grateful...
A scorpion! The first time I've ever seen a scorpion in Europe... before this I had sort of assumed there were one, maybe two species. So I was quite surprised to find there are at least 27 European species of Scorpion, and they're pretty hard to identify!
Who's watching who? A female Cretan Wall Lizard, giving me the eye from within her hideaway...
Cretan Ebony, Ebonus cretica
Orchis papilionacea ssp alibertis
Orchis anatolica
Ophrys creberimma, an endemic fusca-typeMore from Crete 2011:
April 18th: Kakomouri
Amazing Arums
April 17th: Preveli
April 16th: Spili Bumps and its orchids
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