Cinctorres · Castellfort · Portell de Morella
Rambla Celumbres Ecosystem
Wildlife, flora and landscape of the Celumbres rambla, in the Els Ports mountains.
23 guides · 315 photographs · 2014–2016
A photographic guide to the life of a rambla that hardly ever carries water: flowers, insects, birds, mammals, fungi and lichens, observed over three years between the Roca Parda and the Roca Roja.
The four seasons
The rambla changes colour every three months. A walk through the year.
Text and photographs
Tadeo and Paquita
This site gathers the work of two siblings from Cinctorres who, after retiring, spent years walking the Els Ports mountains with a camera and a notebook. She wrote; he photographed.
Meet the authorsWhere to start
Some of the best-loved guides from the original blog.
Iberian ibex
Capra pyrenaica
They climb gorges and crags on the edge of the abyss, and when the group is feeding there is always one on watch. At the first sign of danger, they all run.
Moths
The first moth of the season
A Graellsia isabellae almost as big as a hand, found at seven in the morning at the dels Bassis spring, and other moths of the rambla.
Birds of prey
Griffon vulture and peregrine falcon
Several mornings crouched under a camouflage net at the top of the Roca Parda, until they captured the majestic flight of the vultures.
Wild orchids
Eight kinds on the terraces of l'Arribassada
Less showy than their tropical relatives, but more delicate and subtle. Some, like the Ophrys, are trap flowers that mimic bees.
Spiders
Arachnids
Near-blind weavers, hunters lying in wait, and a crab spider that hides in the centre of a flower it has arranged itself.
Fungi and mushrooms
Hidden nuptials
Cap, hymenium and stem; a fungal cannon that fires spores half a metre; and a clear warning: no cooking makes a poisonous mushroom edible.
