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I have captured this series of photographs for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia in Vallter, now without snow and with little water in the fountains and in the Ter river. The chamois have come down to look for food because in the highest part even the trees are drier.
The chamois is a bovid present in some mountain ranges in Europe, also in Catalonia, as in this case in the Ripollès region.
In Spain there are two subspecies of chamois: the Pyrenean (the protagonist of these photographs) and the Cantabrian. The chamois is usually found in high mountain areas with altitudes above 2,000 meters, as in this case of Puig Estela.
It is a nomadic species, it spends the winters in the forests while in spring they climb the mountains, although, with the drought, they go in search of areas where the landscape is still more fertile and there is more water.
This animal supplements its diet with grasses and other herbaceous plants. For its part, its main predators include brown bears and wolves.
Vallter 2000, located in the heart of the Eastern Pyrenees, is known as the Catalan Switzerland, at an altitude of 2,500 metres.
