We started the day on Thursday June 16th at a spot close to our hotel.
This was in a valley heading down towards the beach with trees on both
sides and houses at the bottom. We got at Daniel's special spot just
after 8:00 waiting for a Levant Sparrowhawk to fly above the valley.
This happened after just half an hour and I could see that the bird was
not the usual Eurasian Sparrowhawk. Sadlt the bird was attacked by House
Martins and disappeared from site too quickly. We waited another hour
but the bird did not reappear.
We then drove for two hours to get to the UNESCO Heritage area at Srebarna. A lovely wetland reserve with more pelicans and herons, our first geese of the trip (Greylags) with some smaller birds in the woodland. We also saw our third frog species of the trip - adding Edible Frog to the more familiar Common Frog and Marsh Frogs seen earlier.
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| Srebarna UNESCO Heritage Site |
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| Edible Frog |
The temperature hit 32 degrees in the afternoon and we headed for our nearby hotel for a short siesta before heading out again.
Later in the day we had great views of Hoopoe, Bee-Eater, Rollers and Golden Orioles and I saw several juveniles of the final main target bird on my list - Penduline Tit.
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| European Bee Eater |
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| European Roller |
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