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Photo stories published in April 2021.
On our first photographic hunt at Planina Polje, we found several bird species—herons and storks then in their migration period. Before spotting the first heron, a roe deer posed for us with its tongue out and a…
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At the entrance to Škratovka Cave, the two of us found a spider with pincers (?). It was supposedly the Latin-named Amaurobius ferox, or Black lace-weaver in English. In Slovenian that would be… black weaver?
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Škratovka is a 165m-long, 22m-deep cave with an intermittent spring from which a torrential stream flows. It drains into the River Unica and contributes to flooding on Planina Polje. The cave was discovered in 1950.…
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Unška Collapse Doline is a collapse feature up to 125 metres deep, formed when the roof of a large underground chamber of the River Rak caved in. On its eastern side, behind sheer walls, underground military bunkers extend…
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Velika Karlovica is a karst ponor cave on the western edge of Cerkniško polje. Water from the Cerkniščica, Stržen and most of the lake drains into it, then flows onwards through Zelške Caves as part of the…
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