MOROCCO, April 2007, trip photos from an early season self-organised visit for three friends to the Atlas Mountains
MOROCCO, April 2007, an early season trip into the Atlas mountains with Ian Thompson and 'Ant' Harding
to the west of Khenifra in the Middle Atlas, 15 April
Moroccan Hairstreak, male, Ifrane, Middle Atlas, 16 April
Green Hairstreak, Ifrane, Middle Atlas, 16 April
Moroccan Orange-tip, male, Ifrane, Middle Atlas, 16 Apri
Small Copper, Ifrane, 16 April
Brimstone, female, Ifrane, 16 April
Brimstone, Ifrane, 16 April
type, common around Sefrou, 16 April
Zaouia de Ifrane, 16 April
Rosy Grizzled Skipper, Ifrane, 17 April
Ifrane hillside, 17 April
Greeen Hairstreak, Ifrane, 17 April
home to at least 20 Brimstones yesterday, but quiet today, 17 April
Moroccan Hairstreak, male, Ifrane, 17 April
Moroccan Hairstreak, male, Ifrane, 17 April
Moroccan Hairstreak, male, Ifrane, 17 April
Moroccan Hairstreaks, males, Ifrane, 17 April
Ifrane, 17 April
Large Tortoiseshell, out from hibernation, Ifrane, 17 April
between Ifrane and Annoceur, 17 April
near Annoceur, Middle Atlas, 17 April
Chapman's Green Hairstreak, Takeltount, Annoceur, 17 April
Bath White, near Annoceur, 17 April
Sefrou, 17 April
Sefrou, 17 April
Middle Atlas, 17 April
windy lunar landscape home to the Greenish Black-tip, 18 April
Greenish Black-tip, Pont d'Imdahane, 18 April
Greenish Black-tip, Pont d'Imdahane, 18 April
Greenish Black-tip, Pont d'Imdahane, 18 April
larval host plant of Greenish Black-tip, 18 April
working hard at Pont d'Imdahane, 18 April
empty pupal case, Ouirgane, High Atlas,19 April
below Ouirgane, soon to become flooded into a vast reservoir, High Atlas, 19 April
False Mallow Skipper, Ouirgane, 19 April
False Mallow Skipper, Ouirgane, 19 April
Spotted Fritillary, Ouirgane, 19 April
Brown Argus, Ouirgane, 19 April
Speckled Wood, Ouirgane, 19 April
Small Heath, Ouirgane, 19 April
Ouirgane, 19 April
a lovely mauve/pink Bugloss, Ouirgane, 19 April
around Ouirgane, 19 April
Desert orange-tip larva on host plant, Capparis spinosa, Ouirgane, 19 April
Caper growing out of the rock face, Ouirgane, 19 April
flower, Ouirgane, 19 April
High Atlas watershed, 20 April
view down the valley towards Ouirgane, 20 April
in the Province de Taroudannt looking south into the cloud-covered Sahara, 20 April
heading down towards the desert, 20 April