{"id":36821,"date":"2018-06-13T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=36821"},"modified":"2018-06-13T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:35:52","slug":"bayona-the-fauna-of-monterreal-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/06\/13\/bayona-the-fauna-of-monterreal-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayona: the fauna of Monterreal Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I have taken some photos of one of the less known aspects of the formidable Monterreal Castle, in Bayona (Galicia, Spain): its fauna, which includes the now common seagulls, sparrows, crows and magpies, and a small colony of sheep and goats, as well as several rabbits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The chicks go to sleep<\/a><\/fotos>
\nBayona: Guarding the Walls<\/a><\/fotos><\/p>\n

One of the most visited points of the walls of this great fortress is the area of the Prince's Tower<\/strong>, because from there you can see magnificent sunsets over the sea. This tower, always closed to the public, is taken by the seagulls<\/strong>, as you can see in the photo that heads these lines. From there they can control their breeding area, of which I spoke to you last year<\/a> and which is located just in front of that part of the wall, at the northern end of the peninsula where the castle is located.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the gulls are not the only ones that frequent the battlements of the castle. On these lines you can see a common sparrow in its particular watchtower.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And here is a common wood pigeon in the western wall of the castle.<\/strong> It was looking at the sea, but as soon as I focused it with my camera, it began to look at me. I sure wanted to get pretty in the photo.<\/p>\n

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Here you have two black rabbits.<\/strong> It seems they are doing a signal exchange with their ears. The rabbits are already veteran inhabitants of the castle, although some of them had the bad luck to fall into the clutches of a fox that slipped into the fortress a long time ago ... Today, these rabbits are in a fenced area inside the castle.<\/p>\n

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In that room you can also see sheeps.<\/strong> Here appears one with her lamb. <\/p>\n

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In this photo you can see a sheep very shy <\/strong>(did not leave the tree at all the time) and a crow that should be thinking about whether to take a bath.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There are also goats and goatlings <\/strong>in this indoor enclosure. Some eating ...<\/p>\n

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... and others resting in the shade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The staff of the Parador is responsible for the feeding of the sheep and goats.<\/strong> Sparrows and seagulls are more daring and usually pass by the terrace of the Parador's coffee shop. But the most daring is a swallow who usually sneaks into the coffee shop<\/strong> to give a feast with what humans drop from the tables.<\/p>\n

You can see the complete set of photos in my Flickr account (click here).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I have taken some photos of one of the less known aspects of the formidable Monterreal Castle, in Bayona (Galicia, Spain): its fauna, which includes the now common seagulls, sparrows, crows and magpies, and a small colony of sheep and goats, as well as several rabbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10380],"tags":[5565,299,1805,10717,11462],"class_list":["post-36821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-baiona","tag-bayona","tag-galicia","tag-monterreal-castle","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 01:56:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}