The northeast wind resumed yesterday and migration was turned off like a faucet. You’ll hardly consider that Cape Kaliakra is identical place only a day later. 69 species of 1336 people yesterday whereas the day earlier than that there have been 46,365 people. HERE. Highlights included a really misplaced Treecreeper and a Backyard Warbler was additionally a visit tick.
Then I used the lull within the migration to meet up with some work and went to Kavarna and acquired some gear for the caravan and on the best way again did Balgrevo Steppe HERE. The highlights there have been a Nice Gray Shrike, a late Tawny Pipit and the staging Stone Curlews have been nonetheless current since September.
Within the night I took a stroll spherical Kamen Bryag village and steppe HERE with the highlights there being simply the sheer variety of Chiffchaffs and a pleasant choice of different frequent migrants.
At the moment, there was a even much less birds at Cape Kaliakra, with solely 60 specis of 1157 people HERE and the wind was chilly and once more from the northeast. Nonetheless, immediately was about high quality and never amount when Dimiter and Marina discovered a sprite on the cliff edge which I used to be capable of affirm as a shocking little Pallas’s Warbler. A neighborhood twitch then ensued with Steve and Pauline Fisher and Pavel becoming a member of Dimiter, Marina and myself. Good instances!
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Pallas’s Warbler- maybe counter-intuitively there are extra data of Pallas’s in Bulgaria than Yellow-browed and regardless of us being quite a bit additional east, neither are anticipated scarce migrants right here and are reasonably vagrants.
Treecreeper- really seemed actually fairly chilly on the pinnacle and strikingly white flanks so perhaps one thing from the North? The primary Ebird document for the Cape.
Brambling- fairly a couple of of those round
RB Fly
Juv Pastime
Migrating Blue Tits on the Cape
Black Purple
Stone Curlew
