10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Red Fox in Georgia, not looking very red I’ve never been to Svalbard, so I haven’t ticked off polar bear, but I have seen brown bears on a number of occasions in both Romania and Bulgaria. I’ve also sat for hours in unabated hides in Bulgaria where it’s a matter of luck whether you see a bear or not.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2023

Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings. It is a former floodplain with arable fields intersected by numerous canals. Basically, for Operation Vulture I need a tractor. It has never visited these parts of Serbia before.

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Bulgaria McDonalds Eagles Wolves 262

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Finding Shelter is an amazing documentary about an English family who found themselves unexpectedly rescuing street animals in Bulgaria. The film shares how the family has shared love and compassion for the homeless animals in their town.

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Shelters Homeless Animals Bulgaria Homelessness 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2024

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. This is a Balkan special, and a bird I know well from Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus. There are no fewer than 45 of them, of which I’ve been lucky enough to have seen 25. A singing Black-headed Bunting. Having taken my photograph, I left him in peace.

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Bulgaria Greece Breeders India 177