Holidays to Bulgaria from Scotland

An interesting brand new tour focusing on the spectacular annual migration of numerous of wild birds of victim, pelicans, storks and passerines along the Black Sea Flyway, known as the Via Pontica. The trip is situated in just two centers, providing a comprehensive exploration for the Ebony water shoreline, the bottleneck for all manner of migratory and resident wild birds. This tour is suitable for newbies and experts alike, with most stops offering a range of simple wild birds, in addition to identification difficulties and great odds of hard to get Eastern scarcities.

The initial the main trip is aimed at the wetlands around Bourgas, which form certainly one of Europe’s wealthiest bird areas with more than 340 bird species recorded currently. one of the primary tourist attractions of this Bourgas wetlands may be the huge flocks of White and Dalmatian Pelicans roosting truth be told there during migration. A prime spot are Atanasovsko Lake – a shallow saline lagoon with traditional saltpans however maintained. The lake is of significant relevance for and endless choice of wild birds, including Black-winged Stilt, Broad-billed and Curlew Sandpipers, Marsh Sandpiper, Kentish Plover, Slender-billed and Mediterranean Gulls, Gull-billed Tern and lots of various other migrating wader and waterfowl types. We will additionally invest a day regarding the primary migration watch-point only at that lake, seeing raptor migration and we also would bird the salt-pans, targeting waders and shorebirds. The amounts of soaring wild birds following the Ebony Sea coastal flyway in autumn can rival those on Bosphoros or perhaps the Gibraltar – limitless flocks of a huge number of White Storks, Lesser noticed Eagles and Honey Buzzards and incredible numbers of Ebony Storks, Booted Eagles, Short-toed Eagles, Ebony Kites, Red-footed Falcons, Montagu’s Harriers, Levant Sparrowhawks among others go overhead.