Today's first stop was a visit to another river valley, at the confluence of the rivers Krumovitsa and Arda. The main target here was to try and see Levant Sparrowhawk, which breeds in small numbers in the area. It turned out to be quite a disappointing visit; we failed to see the sparrowhawk or much else of interest during the five hours we spent in the area from 8:00am to 1:00pm.

Getting to the river first required a 45 minute walk along a track, which wound its way through a few different habitats. We noted most of the standard set of Eastern Rodopi birds, including Cirl Bunting, Nighitngale, Hoopoe, Golden Oriole, Crested Lark and 6 Raven, plus a surprise Egyptian Vulture sitting in a field. On the track itself we found two new dragonflies for the trip, an immature male Broad Scarlet and a female Red-veined Darter.

Down by the river and the confluence, the highlights were 8+ Little Ringed Plover and 3+ Yellow Wagtails ssp. feldegg on the stones, and 3 Black Stork, 20+ Grey Heron and 4 Little Egret feeding in the river. At least one Hobby and one Kestrel made a few appearances at various stages of the morning, the former being the first of the trip, and towards midday two separate Griffon Vulture flew over, one quite low. We also saw Eastern Bath White, Lesser Spotted Fritillary and a Hermann's Tortoise.

As it had been quite an unproductive morning, I decided on the way back to devote a bit of time to photograph Small Pincertail, a common species but one I often neglect to take photos of. Along a stretch of track there were several perching quite nicely, and I was able to take a small variety of photos. Nearby, what I believe is a female Philaeus chrysops (Red-bellied Jumping Spider) stayed still enough for me to get a few photos, and we found the forewing of a Mediterrean Hawk-moth (Hyles nicaea) and 2 Southern White Admiral.

Our next and final stop of the day was back at the same site as yesterday, so that I could spend a bit more time attempting to photograph the difficult pair of Eastern Spectre and Turkish Goldenring. I didn't have much more success than the previous day, and while we did see 3+ Eastern Spectre and 2+ Turkish Goldenring, I didn't manage any significant improvements from the previous day. The only other sighting of interest here was the micro moth Olethreutes arcuella (Arched Marble), a species we've seen in Kent but never in Bulgaria.