BULGARIA, Friday 4Rd June to Friday 17Th June 2010
Visit to BULGARIA, Friday 4rd June to Friday 17th June 2010. Albena Coastal, the Eastern Rhodopes and Sakar Mountains, and the northern coastal lakes of Shabla and Durankulak, and Cape Kaliakra. Brian & Isabel Eady. It was way back in July 1997 that we made our first visit to Bulgaria. We were not into birding then, but both remember commenting on the number of birds about. Since then, we caught the birding bug, and decided it was time to revisit. We spoke to Dimiter Georgiev, Managing Director and tour leader for Neophron Tours whilst on our visit to the Bird Fair last year 2009, and we were very pleased that his company actually did one and two day birding tours. Inter-mixed with local birding, which we could undertake ourselves around the locality where we would be staying, fitted our criteria perfectly. Our research showed that the two periods which were ideal for Bulgarian birding were, either the autumn, around September time, and the Spring, May to June. As we were also contemplating a holiday in January 2011 to somewhere in climes as yet unknown, which option to choose, was quite easy, so we opted for a spring visit. Researching on the Internet, Travelling Birder.com turned up quite a few reports which were quite encouraging, especially one written by Trond Haugskott who visited Albena on the Black Sea coast between 3rd and 17th June 2005. This happened to be the same time that we were expecting to visit. During his visit, which was a family holiday, he found a good number of species, and that was basically around the Albena area, with a few other trips thrown in, notably Srebarna, Durankulak, Shabla, and Cape Kaliakra.
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