Alex Perry
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Bulgaria 2022, Day 14 Part 2: Avocets & Stilts at Pomorie

After spending most of the day at Poda, we finished off with a 40 minute evening session around the salt museum at Pomorie. The highlight was finding a new species of damselfly, a Dark Spreadwing, in the grassy area along the shore of the saltpans. I only managed a couple shots before it was off, but I had more success with a repeat visit the following day. Instead I will overload this post with Avocet photos (include my first juvenile photos), and a few Black-winged Stilt photos — two species for which the site provides great photographic opportunities, especially on a still evening when there is nice light reflecting off the water.

Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
juvenile Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
juvenile Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
juvenile Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Avocet
juvenile Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Black-winged Stilt
Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Black-winged Stilt
Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Black-winged Stilt
Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

Other birds noted were 3 Little Tern, a handful of Common Tern, hundreds of Sandwich Tern, 7+ Mediterranean Gull, Black-headed Gulls, Yellow-legged Gulls, and near Pomorie Beach on the walk back to the hotel, a Crested Lark. Here are my record shots of the Dark Spreadwing:

Dark Spreadwing
Dark Spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma)
Dark Spreadwing
Dark Spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma)