Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria 2018 – 8 day trip, day 4
Route: Madzharovo – Mezek – Levka – Topolovgrad – Bourgas
Weather: partly cloudy with temperatures reaching 30 C
Although it was mainly a travelling day, we managed to log in a few good birds.…
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Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria 2018 – 8 day trip, day 3
Krumovgrad – Dolna Kula – Potochnica – Madzharovo
Weather: fairly hot with light showers in the afternoon.
What an exciting day! After the long travel yesterday, we needed a break and did we not get it.…
Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria 2018 – 8 day trip, day 2
Route: Yagodina village – Trigrad Gorge – Perelik chalet – Krumovgrad
Weather: overcast with mostly rain in the afternoon.
Today was a bit quieter but we still managed to see some good birds.…
Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria 2018 – 8 day trip, day 1
Route: Sofia – Pazardzhik – Krichim – Yagodina
Weather: Fairly hot in the high 20s C with a shower in the late afternoon.
I got the opportunity to guide another trip for Wingspan bird tours right after the successful trip to lake Kerkini in Northern Greece but this time the trip is in Bulgaria.…
Birdwatching trip in Northern Greece
Birdwatching trip in Northern Greece
I recently returned from a wonderful birdwatching trip in Northern Greece that i co-led for Wingspan bird tours.
We spent a total of 7 days visiting the habitats around lake Kerkini which vary from quarries, grasslands, scrub, mountainous meadows, broad-leaved and conifer forests and of course wetlands.…
Samothrace photography trip
Samothrace photography trip
Just returned from a wonderful trip to Samothrace island in Greece. What a wonderful place that is! It was my first time on the island and was well worth it.…
Top 5 sites to photograph in Sofia, Bulgaria
Photograph Sofia
However much time you have to spend exploring Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, you should definitely pack your camera, even if you only manage to grab a couple of opportunities to get out for an early morning or evening shoot.…
SNAPP GUIDE BULGARIA
SNAPP Guide
ED: Snapp Guide is now PhotoHound
Have you heard of SNAPP GUIDES? It is a new app for Android and iOS that features some of the best sites for landscape photography in a number of countries.…
Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria: the end
Day 8, May 20th
Today was a traveling day. We had to do over 500 km but we still managed to do some birding to break up the journey. We started doing our garage list which included a Tawny Pipit right by our picnic table, Black-headed Bunting, Golden Oriole, Nightingale and Ortolan Bunting to name but a few.…
Birdwatching trip in Bulgaria: day 7
Day 7, May 19th
Durankulak lake – Shabla lake – Kaliakra cape – Balgarevo village
Before breakfast we did our usual walk around the hotel grounds and it was well worth it. We had fantastic views of Barred Warbler.…