Wildlife

Aspe valley

Yesterday we went across the border to Somport cross-country ski resort. There's hardly any snow and the resort is closed, but it's a pleasant place to go for a walk on what are ski tracks in winter. The views of the Aspe valley in France are spectacular. 
At an altitude of 1,600 metres or so spring comes later than in Jaca. The leaves of the many beech trees haven't even begun to open yet: most of the buds are still tightly closed. The only green is next to streams. Everything is very dry.
All over the place the turf had been turned over, presumably by wild boars looking for food. This is a phenomenon I've seen before but not to that extent: a lot of the mountainside looked as if it had been ploughed.

I was glad to see the evidence without seeing the animals themselves!