More from the Alps

We have been back nearly a week now and I'm still thinking about the flowers, the scenery and the bakers!  Three more shots below of Mont Blanc all taken under different light conditions, the image changed throughout the day.  The rodents are Marmots which played hide and seek in their burrow system and whistled to each other and I couldn't resist another Elder Flower Orchid shot.  You may have noticed that I haven't posted any bird photos and to be honest that's because we didn't take many!   The main group of birds seen were raptors namely Common Buzzards, Honey Buzzards, Black Kites, Hobby, Peregrine and the Lammergeiers all fairly distant so no photos.  In the chalet garden were a family of Black Redstarts, White Wagtails, brief visits of Serin and Common Redstart all of which were impossible to get near so no photos but one bird which was only too happy to be pictured sharing our picnics were A....... C....... wait and see if you can guess!

 Alpine Choughs - did you guess right? NB the bottom one is colour ringed