On this year's trip to Western Thrace I took less photos than I expected but some of them are extraordinary.
I had been wanting for a long time to get a good picture of a buzzard but they were usually siting too far away or the light conditions were not good. This time I was lucky and I encountered this lovely fellow during the boat ride.
On our first day we encountered a particularly brave Βουνοτσίχλονο/ Emberiza cia/ Rock bunting which kept feeding on the ground in spite of several dozens of noisy humans being within 20 meters of it
Later most of us had our first ever encounter with a φασιανό/ Phasianus colchicus/ pheasant male in the wild. Sadly the bird was so far that I could not record enough of its details other than its unmistakable colors and shape
A couple of hours before sunset we found out a flock of Φλώρους /Chloris chloris/European greenfinches were perching near our location
The next day we went to the Evros river estuary and we were greeted by a family of dogs whose youngest member is in this photo
After we boarded the riverboats I encountered a couple of birds of prey. One is this Καλαμόκιρκος /Circus aeruginosus/western marsh harrier while the other one is the buzzard at the start of this post.
I had been wanting for a long time to get a good picture of a buzzard but they were usually siting too far away or the light conditions were not good. This time I was lucky and I encountered this lovely fellow during the boat ride.
Γερακίνα / Buteo buteo / Common buzzard
Δέλτα Έβρου/ Evros Estuary
Δέλτα Έβρου/ Evros Estuary
On our first day we encountered a particularly brave Βουνοτσίχλονο/ Emberiza cia/ Rock bunting which kept feeding on the ground in spite of several dozens of noisy humans being within 20 meters of it
Later most of us had our first ever encounter with a φασιανό/ Phasianus colchicus/ pheasant male in the wild. Sadly the bird was so far that I could not record enough of its details other than its unmistakable colors and shape
A couple of hours before sunset we found out a flock of Φλώρους /Chloris chloris/European greenfinches were perching near our location
The next day we went to the Evros river estuary and we were greeted by a family of dogs whose youngest member is in this photo
After we boarded the riverboats I encountered a couple of birds of prey. One is this Καλαμόκιρκος /Circus aeruginosus/western marsh harrier while the other one is the buzzard at the start of this post.
We also saw in the hunter cabins a pair of (hunting?) dogs
While we saw other several bird species that day the ones that came close enough for a nice picture were these Αγριόκυκνοι Cygnus cygnus/ whooper swans.
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