We spent the last two days of this trip in the Kamen Bryag area. Yesterday we started the day at Cape Kaliakra HERE and then did the Balgarevo Steppe HERE before heading back to Kamen Bryag and birding the steppe. In the evening I spent a wonderful dusk sitting by our pond watching the birds coming down to drink. Ebird list HERE.
Today we first did the moths and the plot - there were 2 Green Sandpipers on our pond!. The Green Sands were a Kamen Bryag hotspot tick- now on 175. We added 4 species this trip- Gull-billed Tern, Green Sand, Mallard and Pygmy Cormorant.
We then checked out Shabla Tusla before visiting Pavel at Durankulak and then it was time to head back home.
Alpine Swift at the Cape
Juvenile Isaballine Wheatear on the Steppe
Short-toed Lark on the Steppe
Male (above) and female (below) Black-headed Bunting
Red-rumped Swallows and House Martins
Lesser Grey Shrike
Turtle Doves by the pond
Corn Bunting at the pond
Golden Orioles near the pond
Barn Swallow in the pond. Great to see the hirundines coming down to drink and in the evening we watched the local Nightjars coming down to drink too- amazing sight!
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