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Penduline Tit Wild Cat R O M A N I A Outline Itinerary Day 1 Fly to Bucharest Days 2-7 Danube Delta Day 8 Depart Bucharest Party Size Maximum of 12 clients (two leaders with more than six clients). Accommodation Comfortable accommodation in twin/double and single rooms, with private facilities. Transport By minibuses driven by the leaders. Includes All flights, meals, accommodation, transport, services of the leaders, VAT, airport taxes and tips. Gradings Good 150 Mainly warm Low Normal White Storks nests are obvious on pylons and posts around the pools and we would hope to find them, as well as a few Black Storks, feeding nearby. There is also the chance of crakes, with Spotted, Little and Baillon’s all possible. The sandy tracks are good feeding areas for Eurasian Hoopoes, and we would hope that we will still find good numbers of European Rollers and European Bee-eaters about. The reedbeds should be alive with noisy family groups of Bearded Reedlings and Penduline Tits. There will also be migrant warblers and we should look for Great Reed, Eurasian Reed, Moustached, Paddyfield and Sedge Warblers. The local woodlands can hold Black Woodpeckers as well as Great, Middle and Lesser Spotted. There may also be Eurasian Wrynecks still present as well as Icterine and Barred Warblers. During our time here we take two boat trips, one into the many enormous lakes of the delta itself, to try and give you some idea of the vast scale of this wilderness area. We should have close encounters with White and Dalmatian Pelicans, Ferruginous Duck and Red-necked and Blacknecked Grebes. There should also still be some marsh terns present. Another boat trip takes us out of the river mouth and into the Black Sea itself, where we may witness some Little Gull migration as well as seeing large numbers of Caspian Gulls. Inland from the sea are saltings and sand dunes, where we may find Pied Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Collared Pratincole, Woodlark and maybe a lingering Red-footed Falcon or Eurasian Hobby. Let us not forget some of the mammals we may find here. During the day it is possible to see Otters and at night we can take drives with spotlights to look for Wildcat, Muskrat, Badger and Golden Jackals. Of course, if there are some photographers in the group, they might wish to use the photographic hides – these have reflective windows and you have the chance to photograph the jackals, Bearded Reedling, Pygmy Cormorant and many other birds coming to the drinking pool, or reedbed hide. Add to this numerous butterflies and dragonflies and you have six days that will be full of wildlife in a setting away from it all. You will not hear any motorways and probably not even any planes Day 8 We leave the hotel after an early breakfast and retrace our steps back to Bucharest before catching our return flight and arriving into London in the afternoon. Relaxed Good Easy Scheduled White-tailed Eagle To make a booking please call Ornitholidays on 01794 519445 147
B U L G A R I A Bulgaria at Leisure The Black Sea Flyway Sunday 07 September – Sunday 14 September 2014 Principal Leader: Dobromir Domuschiev 2014 Cost £1,599 single room supplement £100 Sofia BULGARIA Bourgas Varna Pomorie ur early autumn tour to Bulgaria concentrates on the return migration. It exploits the fact that the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria represents a major O flyway. We will stay at Pomorie, close to the port city of Burgas, which is widely recognised to be a migration hotspot due to the fact that two major southward migration flyways cross each other in the general vicinity. From our base, we will be able to visit key locations within this ‘crossroads’ zone and also take in a range of different habitats. Of these, perhaps the most important are the three lakes of differing character – Atanasova, Vaya and Mandra – that surround the city of Burgas. They and their adjacent wetlands are host to huge numbers of birds during the autumn migration. More than 340 bird species have been recorded in this area. As with all migration watching much depends on weather conditions, but early September is widely held to be the prime time for the autumn passage in this part of Europe. Not only should we see a large number of species, but also many of those species will be represented by good numbers of birds, from pelicans to pipits, storks to swallows and waders to wagtails. Hopefully, the highlight will be vast flocks of White Storks and White Pelicans, which should reach their peak migration at this time of year. We shall also be particularly keen to watch the movement of raptors, such as Lesser Spotted Eagle and Levant Sparrowhawk. This will be Ornitholidays’ 15th tour to this region in the late summer and it will be run in a relaxed style fitting our ‘at leisure’ and ‘one-stop’ holidays. White Pelicans migrating ITINERARY Day 1 We take a flight from London and fly directly to Bourgas. Here we will be met by our local guide and a short drive brings us to Pomorie, our base for this one-stop tour. Days 2 to 7 During our stay we will visit a number of different sites, some of them probably more than once. This will certainly be true of the Pomorie Lake, particularly its saltpans and tamarisk scrub that are a short walk from the hotel – ideal for those who like a spell of pre-breakfast bird watching. Duck, wader, gull and tern species will be the focus of interest here, as well as looking for migrant Red-breasted Flycatcher, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat and Yellow Wagtail. Atanasova Lake, on the northern outskirts of Burgas, is another area of working saltpans. It has also been recognised as a Ramsar site. Huge numbers of migrants pass through or over it. The lake is renowned as the best place in Bulgaria for watching and studying the autumn migration. Twelve globally threatened species occur here, including Dalmatian Pelican and Ferruginous Duck. Apart from the last species, other ducks to be seen include Common and Ruddy Shelduck, Garganey, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Wigeon and Northern Pintail. Our list of waders here is likely to include Black-winged Stilt, Pied Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Broad-billed, Marsh and Curlew Sandpipers, Kentish and Little Ringed Plovers as well as Red-necked Phalarope. Here we hope to find Caspian and Black Terns, as well as Slender-billed, Little and Mediterranean Gulls. The reed-fringed dykes of its margins offer temporary refuge to a range of migrating birds, from Little and Baillon’s Crakes to Bearded Reedlings and Eurasian Penduline Tits. Lake Vaya is the largest natural lake in Bulgaria. It is also a Ramsar site and is a popular staging post for thousands of White Pelicans, with smaller numbers of Dalmatian Pelicans, as well as waders such as Spotted Redshank, Ruff and Wood Sandpiper. Here there are thousands of Great Cormorant and good numbers of Pygmy Cormorant. Herons and egrets, ducks and grebes are also well represented. Small flocks of Glossy Ibis and Spoonbill are regularly seen here at this time of the year. Cetti’s Warbler and Zitting 148 For a previous tour report or further information please call: 01794 519445
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