Tours

  Winter Birdwatching Tour

01 Day

Arrival Sofia airport. Dinner. Transfer to Black sea coast  by a night train, sleeping car.

02 Day

Early morning arrival. Check in at a hotel, situated in a park, close to the sea. Drive to the lakes nearby - surrounded by hills covered with oak forests, and they are very important wetlands for both breeding and migrating birds. Those of greater interest during the winter season are: Dalmatian Pelican, Pygmy Cormorant, White-headed Duck, Bittern, Great White Egret, White-tailed Eagle.

Sea

03 Day

Transfer to the next main point for the trip and new birds to see: Great Spotted, Middle Spotted , Lesser Spotted, Green, Grey-headed and Black Woodpecker, Short-toed Treecreeper. Accommodation at hotel for 3 nights. Numerous flocks of geese can often be seen to fly or circle over the hotel.

04 Day

A trip  along the  sea shore. Here we will have the first opportunity to observe thousands of  Red-breasted geese.

05 Day

A trip to a  local lake and its surrounding areas - the greatest concentration of the globally threatened Red-breasted Geese and the White-fronted Geese. Other interesting and possible sightings are also the globally threatened Lesser White-fronted Goose, Long-legged Buzzard, Rough-legged Buzzard,  Calandra Lark.

06 Day

A trip to another local  lake and the surrounding marshland, also of great importance for migrating and breeding birds. Late afternoon transfer to the hotel, dinner and transfer to the railway station, where we board the night train (sleeping car) to Sofia.

07 Day

The train arrives in  early in the mourning and we set out for a mountain, close to Sofia. We check in at the  hotel for one night. After breakfast we take a walk along the snow covered slope of the mountain and if the weather permits, we may see Nutcracker, Crossbills, Water Pipit.

08 Day

Transfer to the airport and departure.

 


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