Sky just after sunset. Twenty-three degrees.
Sunset ends the first day of the “big”hunting season - big referring to the game and not the duration of the season, which consists of twelve days, consecutive Sundays.
Büyük av translates as big game hunting. Somewhat amusing for many non-Cypriots to realise what is regarded as “big game hunting” (small game consists entirely of smaller birds and has a separate hunting season). So rabbit and partridge are as big as it gets for hunting purposes . There are foxes and the Cypriot mouflon, a wild mountain sheep exists in the North as well as in the Republic of Cyprus, though it is considered endangered.
So this morning we hear a single shot, probably from further up the mountain side.
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