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Barn Swallow, copyright Iordan Hristov |
A Collared Dove has made a nice nest on an antenna. A view you would expect but don’t often see. In a minute we heard a strange croaking reminding me of a Thrush Nightingale. It wasn’t difficult to make sure I was right. It was rather exciting for most of the people who hadn’t seen it before. Two minutes later a strange looking flycatcher turned up. Initially we thought it was a Pied Flycatcher but photos proved it was a Semi-collared with evident white sides of the tail which miss on the Pied. Now we were ready for breakfast.
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Birdwatching in Bulgaria copyright Iordan Hristov |
After a pleasant coffee we headed to another place further south. We got a few items from the groceries for lunch and had a rather pleasant lunch on a terrace looking at the sea. Arctic Skua and Yelkouan Shearwater were the highlights that broke up our lunch.
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Birdwatching in Bulgaria copyright Iordan Hristov |
We headed towards a wetland nearby but before reaching it the scrub along the track stopped us for some time. This time they were Red-breasted Flycatcher and Collared Flycatcher. Further along a Pied Flycatcher turned up. After an hour walk for the 100 m we reached the wetland. An excitement overtook when a brilliant looking Citrine Wagtail turned up. It came rather close for the photographers in the group. Grey Plover was also there.
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Woodchat Shrike and birders from our group, copyright Iordan Hristov |
We already started counting the number of species and realized we were approaching 224 which was only one less than last year’s number. A Lesser Black Backed Gull was the lucky bird to make us even – 225 species seen for 8 days of birdwatching in Bulgaria. We have another day to go and hopefully we will have some surprises.