Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta







Large Bindweed - Claystegia sepium







Bristly Ox-tongue - Helminthotheca echiodes







Hawk bit?







Yellow Horned Poppy - Glaucium flavum







Little Egret - Egretta garzetta











Perennial Sowthistle - Sonchus arvensis











Snipe - Gallinago gallinago

Tags: Avocet, Snipe, LittleEgret, PerennialSowthistle, LargeBindweed, HornedPoppy, BristlyOx-tongue

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

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)



The light changed so quickly this morning. From very dark to this last photo when the sun came out and bathed Salthouse.




The Wheatear liked this area this mronig.
Perching on the pole tops and eyeing the flies.
Dashing off, up and around - putting on a superb display.





A little bit of preening.





















Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)

Managed to get a little bit closer today hence the number of photos.
he just wouldn't trun and look at us all standing on the shingle. He just focussed on the flies.





Sea Aster seed heads (Tripolium pannonicum)

The whole marsh resplendent in these fluffy seed heads at the moment.





House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) caught with its mouth full.



Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)



Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Almost falling apart from the rigours of the year.



Comma (Polygonia c-album)

and
a

Long -tailed Duck
from the
Babcock Hide

Tags: Landscape, LittleEgret, DesertWheatear, SeaAster

Avocet (Recurvirostra avocetta)





Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)





Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)







Teal (Anas crecca)



Eider (Somateria mollissima)

Just superb out in the bay and everyhting so close because of the low tide.

Velvet Scoter - male
Great Crested Grebe
Red Necked Grebe
Long Tailed Duck
Goldeneye
Red Breasted Merganser

Brilliant and in glorious sunshine with little wind.

Back on the sand some superb patterns.











View towards Thornham

Tags: Landscape, LittleEgret, Black-tailedGodwit, Teal, Eider, Avocet