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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GiG" data-source="post: 3483573" data-attributes="member: 6690">14.05.2016It was our last day, and our last early morning pre-breakfast walk, seeing much as the previous morning. It was time to pack, leave our final hotel, and load the van for the long drive back across Bulgaria to the airport at Sofia. As we didn’t need to be at the airport until late afternoon this still gave us a fair bit of birding on the way. Assen said it would be easier to stop if we went by a smaller main road compared to the main highway across country. We had time to visit a couple of wetlands, the first for Penduline Tit that had bred right by the car park along a ditch but a work party was using chainsaws so there was a lot of disturbance and no sign so we moved on. We next went to Pomorie Salt pans, initially seeing close Avocets and Black-winged Stilts, with up to 3 Kentish Plovers too. On the main lake on a strip of posts going out there were a number of Sandwich and Little Terns and a brief Mediterranean Gull. It was time to make tracks and as we headed away from Burgas, from the van we saw a large number of birds in the sky and on pulling over realised it a migrating flock of White Storks, in which a total of 133 were counted, a super sight. We drove for quite a way with a very quick stop along the side of the road when we saw an eagle land by the side of a field. We could see the bird partially hidden by vegetation before it flew out, revealing itself as a Lesser Spotted Eagle. 1.Kentish Plover2.Avocet3.Black-winged Stilt4.White Storks5.Lesser Spotted Eagle</blockquote>

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