In late June 15, I travelled to Turkey on a one week trip with Nigel Jones, Simon Ingram and Bob Marchant. This was my second trip to the country after a three week trip back in late Spring 1986 with Dave Unsworth, Mark Ponsford and Nigel Goodgame. We travelled in an anti-clockwise direction around the whole country after arriving in Istanbul. After successfully seeing our first main target species, Brown Fish Owl, on the first morning, we travelled onto the small town of Akseki in the hills to the North East of Antalya, on the Turkish South Coast. Our first stop was to check some dry grassy fields before the town. The couple of hours in this area provided to be a worthwhile stop for Birds and Insects.
The short grassy fields were covered with several species of Grasshoppers and Crickets.
We drove through the town, before stopping to check an area of small stone-walled fields on the far side. I will cover this final site at Akseki in the next Blog Post.