What a implausible day. As typical I began off at Cape Kaliakra earlier than mild and made my strategy to the tip earlier than strolling again, testing the ruins, then the scrub space after which walked the street alongside the steppe to Bolata the place many of the migration ‘river’ was flowing.
At lunchtime I ended off briefly on the plot for lunch and a few sky gazing.
Within the afternoon I met up with Pavel at Durankulak and we arrange a few mist nets after which watched the birds coming into roost within the reed beds.
I do not even know the place to start summing up the birding at the moment. In brief, I noticed over 100,000 migrants in a single day. God solely is aware of what number of birds are literally shifting by this entire area. Ebird record from Cape Kaliakra HERE together with a flyover Nice Gray Shrike, a Brief-eared Owl flushed from the Steppe, Quail, 2 Corncrake, 24650 Woodpigeon, 121 Mistle Thrush, 2 Fieldfare, 21 Tree Pipit, 18000 Chaffinch, 60 Brambling, 14 Hawfinch and 6 Serin amongst a listing of 76 species of 46,365 people!
Lunchtime was extra relaxed with the spotlight being 15 Frequent Crane over the plot HERE.
Then issues went much more loopy within the afternoon at Pavel’s with 61, 425 indiviudal birds! In order that’s 107,790 particular person birds at the moment. Ebird record HERE with highlights together with a shocking male Pallid Harrier mowing by 50,0000 Swallow, over 10,000 Med Gulls going to roost and 36 Dalmation and 15 White Pelicans shifting over.
Principally thoughts blowing!
Grownup male Pallid Harrier with Barn Swallows
Dalmation (above) and Nice White Pelicans (under)
Med Gulls
Barn Swallows trying like mosquitos
Frequent Cranes
Nice Gray Shrike over
Grownup feminine Pink-footed Falcon
Woodpigeons shifting over the Cape- simply click on on this picture and zoom as much as see the magnitude of this
Passerines shifting previous the generators at daybreak
