Seascape photography in Bulgaria
in Blog EN 28 Settembre 2014, 14:31


Just uploaded a series of seascape images from Bulgaria. If you want to have a look at them just go to my blog here. here is a taste of them:



Seascape photography, Copyright Iordan Hristov ?2014



Seascape photography, Copyright Iordan Hristov ?2014

Here is the link to my blog post: danbirder.blogspot.com

Any constructive comments are very welcome.

Birdwatching and wildlife photography trip in Bulgaria and Greece just finished
in Blog EN 16 Marzo 2014, 11:39


Seven days around Bulgaria and Greece finished with a total of 2002 km, 126 bird species seen, 5 mammal species seen and a few photos done.

In the period March 8-15 a friend and i did a birdwatching trip in Bulgaria and Greece. Here I shall try to recap all the information with some figures.

My friend came over with the aim to see 8 target species: Dalmatian Pelican, Saker Falcon, Capercaillie, Three-toed Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Pygmy Owl, Rock Partridge and Black Vulture. From all these 8 species we managed to see half of them: Dalmatian Pelican, Pygmy Owl, Rock Partridge and Black Vulture.

We knew in advance that the chance for observing the Saker Falcon was really low and we were aware of it so we were hoping for pure luck. Because of the heavy snow that fell in the last week we couldn't reach the sites for Three-toed Woodpecker. We did try but it was totally impossible. For the Capercaillie it was still early. We know its active lekking is after April 20th but still wanted to try. We visited two lekking sites but there was still no activity there. For the White-backed we were trying every day at several location but had no luck. The birds were not active yet. Moreover at some of the sites it was snowing. Nevertheless we had fantastic views of the Pygmy Owl, the Dalmatian Pelicans and 7 Black Vultures. The Rock Partridge we only saw in flight.

Having in mind that our target were specific birds we still managed to do a pretty good list of birds counting a total of 126 bird species and 5 species of mammals for 7 day period (see the full checklist at the end of the material). Some of the highlights are the species I mentioned and Bewick's Swan, several Great-spotted Eagles, Sardinian Warbler, Sombre Tit. During the trip the migration had started so we enjoyed over 50 Black Kites, over 100 Common Buzzards, several hundred White Stork, dozens of Black Storks, Eurasian Sparrowhawks, a dozen of Ferruginous Ducks and Garganeys.

In total we have driven 2002 km for this 7 day period. This is more than preliminary planned but it was important to visit all the possible sites to ensure success of the trip. And I think we did it.

You can see the full checklist of birds seen on my blog danbirder.blogspot.com/2014/03/birdwatching-in-bulgaria-tailored-trip_

Here are a few photos from the trip:

Pygmy Owl ? Iordan Hristov




Black Vulture ? Iordan Hristov




Great-spotted Eagle ? Iordan Hristov




Roe Deer ? Iordan Hristov




Ponor mountains, Bulgaria ? Iordan Hristov




Golden Eagle ? Iordan Hristov

Juza gallery
in Discussion Forum 07 Marzo 2014, 15:56


Just tried to import the galleries from the Juza website to my personal blog danbirder.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_7.html and it seems to work quite nice. I struggle a bit with the size of the thumbnails and the framing but it looks neat. It would have been nice to be able to design the look of the galleries say put them in two columns.
Anyone has a key for that?
Thanks

I just updated my blog with a few new im...
in Blog EN 03 Luglio 2012, 18:32


I just updated my blog with a few new images of Golden Oriole, Roller and Bee-eater. Enjoy danbirder.blogspot.com/

Hi all, I would be happy if you give any...
in Blog EN 22 Giugno 2012, 16:50


Hi all, I would be happy if you give any constructive comments on my photos. I am still new to photography, so any comments on design, layout, post-processing are useful.
greetings from Bulgaria