Bulgaria Project 2021 Review

All was going well with this until the British Government decided to downgrade the Bulgarian covid classification from yellow to green. Instead of reducing travel restrictions, Bulgaria reacted by putting the UK on their red list to stop the British tourists coming in with their double-vaxed carefree demeanours spreading covid to Bulgarians who refuse to trust the government's vaccination programme (I think Bulgaria remains the lowest vaccination uptaker in the EU). Anyway we managed to get out there in the Spring but the autumn trip was cancelled.  Also our partner Neophron managed to acquire some more land adjacent to the first area we have bought. 

The Spring trip was epic! Here's a few shots. Blog posts HERE. Fingers crossed we will be back out there next Spring. 

Great Snipe- finding a world tick was the highlight

Common Rosefinch- a Bulgarian scarcity 

Arctic Skuas in the Black Sea chasing Sandwich Tern 

The migration was spectacular- a few Black Terns on the move 

Greater Flamingos- currently expanding North up the Black Sea, these birds were at Shabla Tuzla 

Good numbers of Yelkouan Shearwaters in the Black Sea during Spring 

These enigmatic Wheatears were extremely interesting MORE HERE

Nettle-tree Butterfly 

The herping trip was absolutely mega- Four-lined Snake (above) and Horn-nosed Viper (below). More HERE  . We did some Tik Tok videos, one of them got 4.5 million views HERE.  

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