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Gallocanta

Veleta

This past weekend, from 13 to 15 November, I have been together with some friends in the Gallocanta village, Teruel, with gaps of the same name . The purpose of the trip was, apart from meeting beens, watching the cranes in the lagoon, especially the exit and entry to it, with the dawn and dusk. Also going with a few children, which I hope they have been recorded this magnificent show forever.

introduction, indicate that the Gallocanta Lake is the largest lake endorrheic the Iberian peninsula and the main western European salt marsh.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_endorreico
has a considerable size seven and a half miles long and a width of two miles and a half. The depth could be about two meters in rainy periods.

Nature Reserve Lagoon Gallocanta hosts numerous waterfowl and is the main crossing point in Western Europe for the crane, which have been given maximum concentrations of up to 60,000 copies.

Map Gallocanta

Well, we arrived on Friday evening 13 and talking with the owner of the cottages where we stayed, we recommended that the next day we were before sunrise observatory THE HERMITAGE, since the days before the cranes had left the lagoon where to stay, to their places of refreshment, taking the direction of the West and this was the best place to contemplate. Truly, it is a spectacle without parallel, and although he had heard recounting the experience to many people, there is nothing like being there and hear the trumpeting of 20,000 cranes out endlessly of the lagoon.

Observatory Sunrise from LA ERMITA

Once out most of the cranes, we headed to the Interpretation Center of the lagoon, which is located between the towns of Lathes and Bello, and we were told they were doing guided tours around the lagoon. What was our disappointment when we learned that all groups were crowded, as people had booked online in advance. We visited with the local kids the Center, with lots of educational games and a video projection and the center manager advised us where see the cranes with a certain calm. Right there

have a turret several meters high, overlooking the lagoon, where we saw a marsh harrier hunting in a set and a female Montagu's harrier or pale, knew not distinguish well.

After an hour or so, we went to the observatory of the ditch, near the village of Las Cuerlas.

Observartorio LA REGUERA

seems that there is a natural upwelling of fresh water and the cranes who come to drink once they have fed. There were lots of them, but they were very nervous and took flight at the slightest noise. Is clearly not used to being the object of attention of many people. Attached several photos taken from the observatory:

New generations of ornithologists

From there, we returned to the Gallocanta town to eat, to return to prepare for the return of the cranes to the lake for the night and again was a real spectacle.

The next day we suffer a range of low and only the fans repeated the dawn turned to repeat the same show again. According to a census conducted on Thursday, 12, was in the lake about 20,000 cranes at night. I attached a picture of the results of the census, which was hanging in one of the lodgings:

cranes Census

Gallocanta from LA ERMITA

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