Destinations
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Bulgaria 3 – 12 June 2010
Black Sea coast
The second part of the holiday is based near the wetlands around Bourgas, one of Europe's richest bird areas. Lakes, saline lagoons and saltpans support black-winged stilt, Kentish plover, slender-billed and Mediterranean gulls and gull-billed tern and a great variety of migrating waders.
The greatest lure of the Bourgas wetlands is the flocks of resident white and Dalmatian pelicans. Other birds can include all the European herons and egrets, spoonbill, little crakes and whiskered and white-winged black terns. A visit to the Poda Nature Conservation Centre is planned. We will spend an afternoon birdwatching from the terrace of the centre or walking in the nature reserve.
Past the beautiful sea town of Sozopol and the sand dunes of Primorsko, we come to the most south-eastern corner of Bulgaria, covered by the forests of the Strandja Mountain. An endless chain of gentle crests and folding wood covered tops, the Strandja is one of the top places in Europe in terms of biological diversity. Its deciduous forests are of oriental beech with oaks Quercus polycarpa and Strandja Oak Quercus hartwissiana. Birds here can include black stork, grey-headed woodpecker, barred warbler, semi-collared flycatcher and sombre tit.
Poda nature reserve
Dalmatian pelican (Assen Ignatov)
Strandja forest
