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Welcome to the Wingspan Bird Tours Blog. All news, bird sightings and tour updates will be recorded here for your information as-well as details of our day trips, tours and accommodation. An archive of older blogs can still be found by clicking here:

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RIO GENAL - RIO GUADIARO - SAN ENRIQUE WOODS - MARCHENILLA TRACK A great day out in beautiful sunshine, the countryside is ablaze with colourful wild flowers and bird-life is thriving on the insect explosion........

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TRANSFER FROM MALAGA AIRPORT TO GAUCIN WITH STOPS AT ESTEPONA, CASARES AND SIERRA CRESTELLINA. The predictable French Air Traffic Controllers went on shrike during this bank holiday week, what a surprise! So my guests were delay by 3hrs but this didn't stop us having some good birding on the way from the airport.......

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ESTEPONA - RIO GENAL - GUADIARO VALLEY - SAN ENRIQUE WOODS - MARCHENILLA TRACK Today I collected Steve, his son Dan and his son-in-law Lee from their holiday accommodation near Estepona, we had a great relaxed birding day in the valleys around Casares, Gaucin and San Martìn.................

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TRANSFER FROM KRAPETS TO SOFIA VIA VARNA There was not too much time for birding today as we travelled 500km from east to west across the centre of the country and the Central Balkan Mountains.

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KRAPETS – DURANKULAK – SHABLA LAKE – CAPE KALIAKRA – BOLATA QUARRY Our last full day was as exciting as the first we had plenty of new birds still to find and a couple of surprises were in store for us………

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TRANSFER FROM BOURGAS TO KRAPETS WITH STOPS AT POMORIE – NORTHERN SALT PANS – GORITSA - TOPOLA Transfer days never produce big lists and at this stage of the tour we see very few new birds for the list……….

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BOURGAS WETLANDS – PODA RESERVE – BOURGAS SALINAS We spent all day in and around Bourgas, there are so many places to visit and so may birds to look for…….

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BORISLAVTSI – LEVKA - TOPOLOVGRAD – BOZHURA – BOURGAS LAKE We headed out of the Rhodope Mountains to the Black Sea Coast, the weather got warmer, new birds kept on coming. It was Eagle day today..........

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KRUMOVGRAD – DONA KULA VALLEY – TRANSFER TO MADZHAROVO - BIRDING MADZHAROVO CRATER AREA A full-on programme for today saw us visit many different habitats and amass a sizable list of species………

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YAGODINA - TRIGRAD GORGE - PREVALA MOUNTAIN PASS - KRUMOVGRAD We had a 'cracker' of a day, literally! Nutcracker was our bird of the day by a long shot, what a great bird................

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