First day of a work trip to Bulgaria today. Sorting out planning permission for water and electricity on the project plot and also doing some more conservation work later on in the week. Round that hoping to get a bit of birding and some late mothing too. Today was a day of notaries, bureaucrats and translators in Varna with Dimiter. In the afternoon I had a walk through town and down to the bay.
This was the closest thing to a Caspian Gull amongst 200 or so Yellow-legged Gulls
A rather Herring Gull looking first-winter Yellow-legged Gull
A gorgeous adult Yellow-legged Gull
A couple of stand outs (above and below) - the Black Sea gulls are notoriously variable with presumed hybridising with Caspian Gulls
Hooded Crow on the Beach
Not what I expected to see out here- a Ring-necked Parakeet (Cat E round here)
A walk to the sea front took me through some classic Brutalist ex-communist architecture
The local park was a nice surprise
Varna Bay
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