What a fantastic day. As usual I started off at Cape Kaliakra before light and made my way to the tip before walking back, checking out the ruins, then the scrub area and then walked the road along the steppe to Bolata where most of the migration 'river' was flowing.
At lunchtime I stopped off briefly at the plot for lunch and some sky gazing.
In the afternoon I met up with Pavel at Durankulak and we set up a couple of mist nets and then watched the birds coming into roost in the reed beds.
I don't even know where to begin summing up the birding today. In short, I saw over 100,000 migrants in a single day. God only knows how many birds are actually moving through this whole region. Ebird list from Cape Kaliakra HERE including a flyover Great Grey Shrike, Quail, 2 Corncrake, 24650 Woodpigeon, 121 Mistle Thrush, 2 Fieldfare, 21 Tree Pipit, 18000 Chaffinch, 60 Brambling, 14 Hawfinch and 6 Serin amongst a list of 76 species of 46,365 individuals!
Lunchtime was more relaxed with the highlight being 15 Common Crane over the plot HERE.
Then things went even more crazy in the afternoon at Pavel's with 61, 425 indiviudal birds! So that's 107,790 individual birds today. Ebird list HERE with highlights including a stunning male Pallid Harrier mowing through 50,0000 Swallow, over 10,000 Med Gulls going to roost and 36 Dalmation and 15 White Pelicans moving over.
Basically mind blowing!
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