Bulgaria day 13

We met Anton this morning at our hotel and then in torrential rain we headed south to Kresna. Our orginal plan was to head to the mountains north of Sofia but the weather changed our strategy so we headed south instead.

Nikolay had given us a couple of locations to check for butterflies so Kevin and I did some lepping while Anton concentrated on herping. Between us all we had a nice haul.

Purple-shot Copper (above and below)

Sooty Copper

Chequered Blue

Great Banded Grayling

Nettle-tree Butterfly aka European Beak

European Swallowtail (above and below) 

Oriental Skipper (above and below) 

Southern White Admiral

Balkan Marbled White

Brown Argus

Common Blues

Velvet spider sp

Dice Snake

Horn-nosed Viper (above and below)

Kresna Gorge (above and below)