Bulgarian Black Sea coast

A weeks trip to Nessebar on the Black Sea with my Wife 3 weeks ago started out well with excellent weather and plenty of birds on the Pomorie Salt Pans. However the weather deteriorated rapidly to heavy overcast and rain with temperatures of 12-13 deg. in the cold Northerly winds, at which point most of the birds went South. The only decent numbers of birds we saw after that were several flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans, consisting of hundreds of birds, all flying South past the hotel. Bulgaria would seem to be an excellent location for birding but we didn’t visit as many sites as we could have because of the bad weather and extremely hazardous driving conditions – vehicles coming towards us on our side of a dual carriageway is just one example!

A few examples of the hundreds of birds we saw in the first couple of days, the camera rarely came out after that. Click on the image for a larger version.

Grey Wagtail

1st Winter Caspian Gull

Distant Merlin

Pygmy Cormorants

Yellow legged gull

5 Sandwich Terns and a Little Tern

Sandwich Tern

Slender billed gull

Little Egret

Sparrowhawk

1st Winter Yellow legged gull

Little Gull

Little Gull

1st Winter Barred Warbler

Little Gulls

Caspian Tern

Caspian Tern

Caspian Tern

Yellow legged gull, 1st Winter

Sandwich and little Terns

Little Tern

Great White Egret

Little Gull

David