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bulgarian wild life
May. 19th, 2006 12:31 amThe lack of corvids seemed very odd to me. After mentioning this one person pointed out a jackdaw through the moving bus window but that was it. They may have been there, but I didn't see them.
I noticed in my lame little dictionary that the word for pigeon and dove was the same. I saw a few pigeons, not many. I don't recall seeing any doves that I recognized as such.
The first stork nests I saw were on the top of a church tower and the top of a tall pole placed near a church tower. Then there were just lots and lots of storks around.
A lot of small birds I can't name building nests on the the sides of buildings (kind of looked more like wasp nests, but it was birds). The birds were loud all day, not just in the morning.
Cuckoo ! We heard those a few times. I specifically know I heard them at Varvara on the mountain and out at Beshkitash, but I might have heard more. When you hear it you know it can't be anything else. Cuckoo indeed!
Lots of various tiny green bugs on the mountain in Varvara, some wormy some beetley, just all such a joyfully light green color you had to like them. Some larger black beetles up there too. Some of them were not watching out well enough to avoid being danced over.
These bugs similar to lady bugs, but a bit longer, red with black pattern - like diagonals and spots - like something you'd see on southwestern pueblo pottery. Someone said they call those June bugs, but I don't know June bugs.
The seashore at Lozenets had so many shells! and the seaweed was completely different than I am used to. Very few gulls at the Black Sea except circling around this one fishing boat.
Overall the plants were not very familiar... well there were pines and oaks and ferns and wild flowers, but all not quite like what I'm used to. The poppies were red instead of orange.
Other people were id-ing some of the plants for me. There was a tree in Sofia that was covered in purple flowered vines that surprised people said was wisteria. Also much exclamations about the trees with the white flowers - white chestnut apparently.
The pine forest in Sakar was apparently planted, all very regular and same size trees. I guessed about 50 years, Martine thought probably only 30 years or less.
Fresh lilac smells totally wonderful!
Serenaded by my zhabi friends :) Froggies under the bridge to the beach at Lozenets and near the sacred springs in Bulgari.
There was also a magnificent little lizard guarding the St Helen's spring at Bulgari. Sitting on the bottom crosspiece of the gate with a shiny blue and green head and brownish drab body.
Felt strange to walk in woods with NO poison oak! I'm so used to that being a concern.
I noticed in my lame little dictionary that the word for pigeon and dove was the same. I saw a few pigeons, not many. I don't recall seeing any doves that I recognized as such.
The first stork nests I saw were on the top of a church tower and the top of a tall pole placed near a church tower. Then there were just lots and lots of storks around.
A lot of small birds I can't name building nests on the the sides of buildings (kind of looked more like wasp nests, but it was birds). The birds were loud all day, not just in the morning.
Cuckoo ! We heard those a few times. I specifically know I heard them at Varvara on the mountain and out at Beshkitash, but I might have heard more. When you hear it you know it can't be anything else. Cuckoo indeed!
Lots of various tiny green bugs on the mountain in Varvara, some wormy some beetley, just all such a joyfully light green color you had to like them. Some larger black beetles up there too. Some of them were not watching out well enough to avoid being danced over.
These bugs similar to lady bugs, but a bit longer, red with black pattern - like diagonals and spots - like something you'd see on southwestern pueblo pottery. Someone said they call those June bugs, but I don't know June bugs.
The seashore at Lozenets had so many shells! and the seaweed was completely different than I am used to. Very few gulls at the Black Sea except circling around this one fishing boat.
Overall the plants were not very familiar... well there were pines and oaks and ferns and wild flowers, but all not quite like what I'm used to. The poppies were red instead of orange.
Other people were id-ing some of the plants for me. There was a tree in Sofia that was covered in purple flowered vines that surprised people said was wisteria. Also much exclamations about the trees with the white flowers - white chestnut apparently.
The pine forest in Sakar was apparently planted, all very regular and same size trees. I guessed about 50 years, Martine thought probably only 30 years or less.
Fresh lilac smells totally wonderful!
Serenaded by my zhabi friends :) Froggies under the bridge to the beach at Lozenets and near the sacred springs in Bulgari.
There was also a magnificent little lizard guarding the St Helen's spring at Bulgari. Sitting on the bottom crosspiece of the gate with a shiny blue and green head and brownish drab body.
Felt strange to walk in woods with NO poison oak! I'm so used to that being a concern.
