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May, 2025

Ceret (30 mins away): Fete Des Cerises (Festival of the Cherry)


At Alpine level (1600-2100m)

Rearing of young peregrine falcons.


Start of flowering amidst the grass and rocks:

Columbine (aquilegia vulgaris)


Pulsatilla alpina: part of the buttercup family


Marmots come out of hibernation


Eggs of diurnal butterflies laid. Birth of crickets on the grass. Toad eggs laid. Izards born. Swarms of bees: lots of activity in the bee-hives.




Wild mountain lettuce picking and the arrival of cattle on the higher slopes.