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Welcome home, and thank you so much for your posts.  It's so nice for all those who contribute to read how much someone has enjoyed somewhere which has been recommended!

We went back again in May, for the umpteenth time!  I think it was this thread which sparked us off again.  And yet again, we found more undiscovered things to do - this time we found an area where there were loads of the beautiful carline thistles growing - previously we've only ever seen one or two, we saw birds we've never seen - another type of vulure - and we found the przewalski horses (primitive horses, reintroduced on the causse).  We also took the canoe out again on the Tarn and this time we're going back with a waterproof camera so we can take some photographs whilst on the river.

Hi Lizex, yes, we've seen the vultures lots of times - they must have bee bearded vultures this time with a different shaped tail. I knew they were different to the 'normal' ones we see every time we're there.  I remember watching a film in the 1980's at Val de Cantobre about the reintroductions of Griffon and Black Vultures, and at that time the vulture centre in the Jonte was just a small building, and not the centre which is there now!

At one time the farmers were paid to put out their carcasses on the Causse(s)- I'm not sure if this still happens up there, but I imagine so since the vultures are doing so well.