Our final day of this trip was spent at Pirin National Park. Anton, Kojak and I headed to the Bansko summit lodge and spent the morning there and had lunch before descending and checking a few spots on the way down. A few new bird ticks HERE including a cracking Nutcracker, Ring Ouzels and Crossbills. Birding trip report for the last two weeks HERE. We had 144 species which wasn't too bad considering this was a family and natural history trip.
The main purpose of the visit was to look for Adders (a regional subspecies) which, thanks to Anton, was successful.
We then headed back towards Sofia and stopped off in South Park for a few herps, dropped Anton off and then back to the hotel.
I had to drop the car off in the evening ahead of the very early flight the next day. According to the car rental company we did 3000km over the last two weeks (see the Ebird map HERE ).
Nutcracker (above and below)
Male Ring Ouzel
Male Red Crossbill
Red-rumped Swallow
Dunnock- everywhere in the mountains
Adders, male (above) and female (below)
Viviparous Lizard
Aesculapian Snake in South Park, Sofia
Sand Lizard
Heart Moth- the highlight in the moth trap from Kresner
Balkan Chamois- common around the summit
Pirin (above and below)
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