september birding trip: day 3 – saltpans
Today we are traveling towards the coast where the group will stay for three nights. We decided to have an earlier breakfast and depart earlier to have enough time for birding along the route.…
birdwatching tours in Bulgaria
This category is specifically devoted to birdwatching tours in Bulgaria that I have guided for clients.
september birding trip: day 2 – Red-footed Falcon
What an exciting day. I really needed to do some birding lately and here i go. I finally had the chance to do some proper all day birding.
We started with a bre breakfast walk around Krumovgrad which took us down to the river.…
September birding trip: day 1 – Short-toed Eagle
I just started a new birding trip hired by Naturetrek and its local operator Pandion Tours. For only a couple of days i will be guiding a group of 12 birders around the Eastern Rhodope mountains and further east towards the coast.…
Central Balkan mountains – Four day birdwatching trip, day 4 – 26.07.2015
Madzharovo – Central Balkan Mountains – Sofia
This is our last day of this short birdwatching trip so we had to leave after breakfast. Before that we still wanted to try for the Subalpine Warbler as agreed yesterday.…
Four day birdwatching trip, day 3 – 25.07.2015
Madzharovo – the volcano crater
We started at 6.30 a.m. to make use of the cool weather and drove for a mile to reach our place for the pre breakfast birding. It was rather fresh and soon birds starting appearing.…
Four day birdwatching trip, day 2 – 24.07.2015
Trigrad – Kardzhali – Madzharovo
We started at 6.30 with a pre breakfast walk around the hotel grounds. Once we came out of the yard our attention was attracted by some alarm calls coming from the river.…
New four day birdwatching trip commences today, day 1 – 23.07.2015
Sofia – Pazardzik – Trigrad
I just started a new birdwatching trip with a small group of 3 Canadians coming over to Bulgaria for a few local birds. The trip is four days long and includes both Western and Eastern Rhodope mountains.…
Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria: sum up
Another successful trip around Bulgaria just ended. We did a total of 1800 km around the whole diversity of habitats in the country. These include broad-leafed and conifer forests, marshes, lagoons, steppe, riverine forests and cliffs.…
BirdID course in Bulgaria 2015: the end
Well, the time for the end has come.It was the last day of our trip which we used for a transfer from our last destination to Sofia. En route we stopped to stretch our legs and added Yellowhammer to the list.…
BirdID course in Bulgaria 2015: waterbirds
Today my guests had their best day for the trip. It was going to be a day devoted to waterbirds. According to their words today we visited the best sites for the whole trip. The day was fairly quiet and we spend a lot of time birding rather then driving around.…