Little Egret - Egretta garzetta





Black Tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa







Teal - Anas crecca



Redshank - Tringa totanus














Avocet - Recurvirostra avocata



Eider - Somateria mollissima

Just superb out on the bay and everything so close because of the low tide.

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

Brilliant and in glorious sunshine with little wind.

Back on the sand









Amazing patterns in the sand on the beach.



View towards Thornham

Tag CloudBlacktailedGodwit, RedShank, LittleEgret, Eider, Landscape, SandPatterns

Little Egret - Egretta garzetta



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







He really liked this area for a while this morning.
Perching on the pole tops and eyeing the flies.
Dashing off, up and around - putting on superb display.





A little bit of preening.















Desert Wheatear - Oenanthe desert

Managed to get a bit closer today hence the number of photos.
He just wouldn't turn and look at us all standing on the shingle just focussed on the insects over the water.





Sea Aster seed heads - Tripolium pannonicum

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












House Sparrow ( Passser domesticus) caught with it's mouth full.



Teal - Anas crecca



Jackdaw - Corvus monedula



Comma - Polygonia c-album



Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta

Almost falling apart from the rigours of the year.




and
a
Long Tailed Duck
Clangula hyemalis

from the
Babcock hide.

Tag CloudLittleEgret, DesertWheatear, SeaAster, Teal, Landscape, HouseSparrow

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.



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












Adult





Ringed in Burgas on 05/06/2015









2nd Winter



Juvenile

Yellow Legged Gull - Larus michahellis



A relative of 'Big Bird'







Little Egret - Egreta garzetta























Squacco Heron - Ardeola ralloides



Sea Spurge - Euphorbia paralias





Wild Carrot - Daucus carota





White Wagtail - Motacilla alba



Dune Plant ????





Chicory - Cichorium intybus

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



Yatata




Mullein - Verbascumthapsus




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 was when

I first noticed this ball of red in the sand. About eight battles all wrapped around a seed head.


Durankulak Lake







White Wagtail - Motacilla alba


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 domestics









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

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