Today I wanted us to try again for the Rock
Partridge although the weather was really nasty. Same as yesterday but at least
there wasn’t any rain and wind was fairly minor. We drove up to the top of the
hill but the fog was just too thick. Nothing turned up on the way up. We spend
half an hour or so up there and decided to leave. On the way down we saw an
interesting rufous morph of the Common Cuckoo.
Our next stop was going to be in a totally
different habitat – beech forest. We wanted to see some woodpeckers and
flycatchers. We drove up a pretty rough terrain. Luckily we changed vehicles so
the new one was able to go off-road and did really well with it. Once we
arrived in the area we managed to hear our first Semi-collared Flycatcher. Not
well seen by everyone we continued looking for it. An hour later we had that
too, and then another and another but the forest was quiet. Absolutely superb
beech with lots of dead wood. Signs of woodpeckers were everywhere. Here we
were hoping to see White-backed, Black, Grey-headed and Middle-spotted
Woodpeckers. Well, we so none. The forest was really quiet. Other than the
Semi-collared Flycatcher, I head one Red-breasted Flycatcher but no one managed
to see or hear it so that may not count. There were a few Common Tree-creepers,
Nuthatches and lots of Chaffinches but no word about the woodpeckers. Well it
isn’t going to be today.
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| beech forest in Bulgaria, copyright Iordan Hristov |
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| beech forest in Bulgaria, copyright Iordan Hristov |
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| beech forest in Bulgaria, copyright Iordan Hristov |
On the way down from the mountain we saw a
lovely hedgehog walking along the track and heard Tawny Owl chicks. This sounds
like a reasonable end of the day.
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