Today (2nd June) we met our guide Nikolay and targeted several butterfly specialities in the spectacular Eastern Rhodope region around the town of Madzharovo. We covered a few sites so I kept Ebird running all day HERE with the birding highlights being a few Bulgarian lifers including Black Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Chukar and Blue Rock Thrush (now on 306 for Bulgaria). Also nice to see all the Griffon Vultures, Rock Buntings and Sombre Tits which I haven't seen in Bulgaria for a while.
Latest butterfly and moths observations HERE with so many highlights. A few photo highlights below.
Egyptian Vulture (above) and Griffon Vulture (below)- it was about time I visited the famous Vulture region of Bulgaria
Black Stork
Butterfly of the day was the localised Kruper's Small White
Southern Small White
Eastern Bath White
Chequered Blue
Little Tiger Blue
Eastern Knapweed Fritillary
Lattice Brown
Small Pincertail
Sinuated Spoonwing
The Eastern Rhodopes (above and below). Between the Danube plains and Dobrich Plateaux, the Balkans, the Black Sea Coast, the Burgas lake complex, the Via Pontica migration route, the passerine migration hotspots around Cape Kaliakra, the Rhodopes, Pirin and Rila, the Strandzha Forests and the various central valleys- Bulgaria is stunningly complex and diverse.
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