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Albena Beach

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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.

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A characteristic flick of the tail.

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Red Breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva

Lots of juveniles and two adults briefly.


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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

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Seedbeds on the clifftop at Kamen Bryag

Hoopoe - Corn Bunting - Willow Warbler

and

2

Saker

on

the way there.


Albena Beach

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Yellow Legged Gull - Larus michahellis

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Little Egret - Egreta garzetta

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Squacco Heron - Ardeola ralloides

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Wild Carrot - Daucus carota

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Sea Spurge - Euphorbia paralias

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White Wagtail - Motacilla alba

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Datura

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Chicory - Cichorium intybus

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

Yatata

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Mullein - Verbascum thapsus

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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


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The 'Hammered Stones' of Pobiti Kamani

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

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Knapweed - Centaurea spp?

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Lichen on the "Hammered Stones"

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Pink - Dianthus spp??

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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

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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

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House Sparrow - Passer domesticus


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Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca

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Red Breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva


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

And in the gorge nearby

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Steppe Buzzard - Buteo buteo vulpinus

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Tree ???

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Old Man's Beard - Clematis vitalba

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Spindle - Euonymus europaeus

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

Balgarevo

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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

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Cape Kaliakra

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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

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Cormorant - Phalacracorax carbo

Pygmy Cormorant - Microcarbo pygmeus

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Carob Tree - Ceratonia siliqua

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