Trip was aimed to see the mountain flora&fauna of Crimea, with supposed focus on lichens and mosses. Finished early because of the rain, couldn't get past one spot of high rocks.
Best finds of the day for myself were:
First photo of Viscum album, Oecanthus pellucens on the grass at the start, female Lucanus cervus and unidentified Machilidae at the spot where we culdn't ack further fast and rain was starting, many Phyllodromica polita running around and Conocephalum salebrosum growing on the rocks at the spot where salmon were swimming, and of course Carabus scabrosus ssp. tauricus found by other tourists on the rocks right in the river.
Started by the new construction site, went south, stopped at the rift for swimming, went further to the place where we went to in 2019, weather started changing, so after searching for beetles went back, had to wait for taxi driver for almost an hour, heard stories that wolves and jackals came to this place, though we're unfortuate to see mammals.
Started from the auto stop, went down the west coast, but with my low ability to walk in hot weaher it was a relatively short trip. Main focus was on birds and insects as it's almost all you can do in that part of the year at this latitude in steppe environment. Plus wanted to find again lichens seen in 2019 but not documented. First wanted to look up some Blenniidae but again too hot for me to do that seriously and this time there were too many people.