Surely one of Europe’s most exotic birds and very difficult to find, the wallcreeper often brightens Charente’s winters by descending from its high mountain breeding grounds and feeding on the sheer walls of our chateaux and churches. La Rochefoucauld is one of its traditional haunts but as the chateau has been closed for several months because of Covid restrictions it has been possible to search for it only on the exterior walls. It was not until today, however, that I finally managed to locate an individual although a few other observers had managed to see it earlier in the year.
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