Albena Beach



Cape Kaliakra

Illegal wind turbines placed next to a major migration point in Bulgaria. Apparently they used to have watchers stationed
to order the turbines switched off if flocks of birds were passing through. Funding for them stopped this year.



A characteristic flick of the tail.










Red Breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva

Lots of juveniles and two adults briefly.






Clouded Yellow - Colia crocus

A little bit the worse for wear but stunning never the less.

A beautiful sunny morning of Red Breasted Flycatchers

Plus

Whitethroat - Levant Sparrowhawk - Wheatear - Black Eared Wheatear - Pied Wheatear - Blackcap - Lesser Whitethroat - Common Crane

Karmen Bryag













Seedbeds on the clifftop at Kamen Bryag

Hoopoe - Corn Bunting - Willow Warbler

and

2

Saker

on

the way there.


Albena Beach




































Yellow Legged Gull - Larus michahellis









Little Egret - Egreta garzetta











































Squacco Heron - Ardeola ralloides



Wild Carrot - Daucus carota





Sea Spurge - Euphorbia paralias



White Wagtail - Motacilla alba









Datura





Chicory - Cichorium intybus

Swallows migrating along the beach. White wagtails in profusion and a Kingfisher

Yatata



Mullein - Verbascum thapsus



Tree ??



Great White Egret - Ardea alba

Rather a downcast morning

quiet
but

Pygmy Cormorant - Great White Egret - Dalmatian Pelican - Spoonbill - Cormorant - Gull Billed Tern - Red Backed Shrike


The "Stone Forest" of Pobiti Kamani














The 'Hammered Stones' of Pobiti Kamani

So name because they seemed to have been hammered or pile driven into the sand.



Knapweed - Centaurea spp?









Lichen on the "Hammered Stones"





???







Pink - Dianthus spp??







Beetle ?????

A vibrant red and black beetle. The photo that didn't get taken.

A ball of red in the sand. About eight beetles all wrapped around a seed head.

Durankulak Lake





Very quiet but it did give a chance to enjoy the Corn Buntings singing around the lake.

and

2 Lesser Spotted Eagles

Oh to see the

Red Breasted Geese

one winter!

We had one spend the winter in Langston Harbour forty years ago.

A stand out bird amongst the Brent.

Cape Kaliakra



House Sparrow - Passer domesticus












Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca




















Red Breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva


Hobby - Levant Sparrowhawk - Wheatear - Blackcap - Chiffchaff - Redstart - Willow Warbler

And in the gorge nearby



Steppe Buzzard - Buteo buteo vulpinus





Tree ???



Old Man's Beard - Clematis vitalba



Spindle - Euonymus europaeus

Redstart - Blackcap - Willow Warbler - Chiffchaff - Purple Heron - Kingfisher

Balgarevo



Crested Lark - Galerida cristata


Whinchat - Wheatear - Quail - Corn Bunting - Bee-eater

Shablenska Tuzla

at
dawn

Little Stint - Dunlin - Avocet - Ruff -

Pied Wagtails in their hundreds from the roost

on the way back to

Cape Kaliakra


Corn Buntings

and a

covey

of

Partridge

and

seed heads









Cape Kaliakra









Painted Lady's on the cliff top.


Lake Atanasovsko

Marsh Harrier - Osprey - Shellduck

Poda

Marsh Harrier - Snipe - Spotted Redshank - Greenshank - Great White Egret - Little Egret









Cormorant - Phalacracorax carbo

Pygmy Cormorant - Microcarbo pygmeus





Carob Tree - Ceratonia siliqua

Tags: LittleEgret, SeaSpurge, WildCarrot, WhiteWagtail, Chicory, Mullein, Knapweed, Lichen, HouseSparrow, OldMan'sBeard, Spindle, RedBreastedFlycatcher, YellowLeggedGull, SteppeBuzzard, LesserWhitethroat, CrestedLark, PinkFootedGoose, GreatWhiteEgret, SquaccoHeron, CloudedYellow, PaintedLady, Cormorant, PygmyCormorant, Carob

The last crab boat off the beach this morning.









Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo



Herring Gull - Larus argentatus argenteus




































Turnstone - Arenaria interpres

Still here this morning.
Still routing
But a little sleepier
with a bit more preening
in the morning sunshine.

Tags: Landscape, Turnstone, Cormorant, HerringGull

Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo

















Turnstone - Arenaria interpres.
Routing (flicking, bulldozing and pecking)
through the seaweed on the beach for small
crustaceans,gastropod molluscs and
in one of the pictures the odd fly.
Adults returning from - hopefully
a successful breeding season.
The last remnants of their summer plumage
showing dusky orange red in the sunlight.
Young ones less brilliant with small
dusky buff fringes on lower wing feathers.

The big questions

Where did they breed?
and
Where to now?









Starling (Sternus vulgaris)

An adult and three juveniles.

Tags: Cormorant, Turnstone, Starling

Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis









Red Admiral - Just waking up in the morning sunshine. - Vanessa atalanta





Hop - Smell the fermenting beer. - Humulus lupulus






Guilder Rose - Viburnum opulus



Common Darter - Sympetrum striatum











Heron - Ardea cinerea







Waterways - posts. Lillies & Reeds











Willow Emerald Damselfly - Chalcolestes viridis

Hobby
Glossy Ibis
Garganey
Snipe
Ruff
Marsh Harrier

Tags: Landscape, Kingfisher, Hop, GuelderRose, Heron, RedAdmiral, CommonDarter, WillowEmerald

Small Heath - Coenonympha pamphilus







Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae

Red Backed Shrike
Wheatear
Whinchat
Stonechat

Tags: Landscape, SmallHeath, SmallTotoiseshell

Tamarisk































Dunlin - Calidris alpina

Tags: Landscape, Tanmarisk, Dunlin

Sanderling - Calidris alba

Tags: Landscape, Sanderling

Water Pepper - Persicaria hydropiper

Great Black Backed Gull - Larus marinus



























Herring Gull - Larus argentatus

Tags: GreatBlack-backedGull