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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Final Trip Totals: 129 Bird Species, 81 Life List Additions. 1. Mute Swan --- Ohrid, Macedonia 6/23/14 2. Common Pochard --- Lake Skadar, Montenegro 6/20/14 3. Ferruginous Duck --- Lake Skadar, Montenegro 6/20/14 4. Rock Partridge --- Pletvar Pass, Macedonia 6/26/14 5...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Fifteen: Our last day in the Balkans. We go hiking up Mt. Jahorina, a ski area from the Sarajevo Olympics. The hike isn't very long, but we get above tree line again and see a few things, including what I'm pretty sure was a fledgeling Water Pipit. In the pine trees at the base of the lift...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Yes, I am. I have most of my lists up now, just the last few days are left. Sadly we didn't plan enough time for Serbia. One of our original plans had us going up to the Belgrade and Novi Sad area, but we only had two weeks, unfortunately.
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Fourteen: By far the most boring day of the trip, all we did was drive from Nis, Serbia, to Pale, Bosnia. We tried to spot at Tara National Park in western Serbia, but it was pouring so we saw no birds. The only bird of interest was a Ring-necked Pheasant that flew across the road in front...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Thirteen: We get up early and drive to the end of the road, to another camping/hotel place, where a hike begins from. This is a great walk, which goes up into the beautiful pine forest until you reach a small lake. From there you can bushwhack a bit to get to a height of land as well. The...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Twelve: Got up at about seven (thought it was six, didn't realize there was a time change) and birded around the hotel for about an hour. Saw a few species, including three life birds, the Spotted Nuthatch, Song Thrush, and Eurasian Bullfinch. There were also several moths perched on the...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Eleven: Got up at 5:45 in order to meet Emil in front of our hotel just after six. Getting into his vehicle, we go to Marena again, and he manages to find us the Lesser Kestrels, so we do end up seeing quite a few. They roost on top of the older houses there, and unfortunately are...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Ten: We left Dihovo early enough to get to the ancient ruins of Heraclea (in Bitola) by nine o'clock. We walked around the ruins for about an hour seeing a bunch more mosaics, and a roman theater. After that we left Bitola and headed in the direction of Kavadarci, the birding capital of...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Nine: On this day we got another chance at some good alpine birds by taking a hike up into Pelister National Park. We got going pretty early in the morning, and managed to see a few birds on our hike up to the "Big Lake", which is a pretty small lake surrounded by mountains with a nice...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Eight: After spending a bit of time in the morning seeing a couple more sights in Ohrid (including the 900 year old Plane Tree), we drove south to the town of Trpejca. Form a little beyond that town, we took the road going over the mountains of Galchica National Park, towards the small town...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Seven: Began the "Northern Woods" hike (check out this pdf for park info and maps of the other hikes: http://eden-al.org/media/Divjake-Karavasta%20Hiking%20Guide.pdf ) pretty early in order to be able to finish by check out time. On the hike we heard quite a lot of things, but unfortunately...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day Six: Spent the early morning in Theth before taking the ten o'clock taxi back to Boge, where our car was parked for the past two days. Gray Wagtail right by the guest house, but not much else. In Boge, our plan was to bird from our car along the Boge-Koplik road, but unfortunately we left...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day 5: On this day we got up early and took a 12 kilometer hike in the beautiful Accursed Mountains around Theth. The trail we took goes to a small alpine meadow in the mountains. This hike took all morning and then until about two in the afternoon, and was quite a good birding hike. On the way...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day 4: After a night at the fairly nice Hotel Vir in Virpazar, on the edge of Lake Skadar, we got up early to meet Emma and Andre, who were our guides for a morning boat trip on Lake Skadar, with the tour company "discover montenegro". The tour was quite a bit longer than we expected it to be...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day 3: Left Dubrovnik reasonably early, and headed south along the coast to Montenegro. Once into Montenegro, we took a short stop to overlook the beautiful Bay of Kotor (a UNESCO site). Yellow-legged Gull and Gray Heron were both around, as were numerous butterflies and grasshoppers. Rather...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Day 2: Continued heading southwest toward the Croatian border, to a nice, sunny morning. Taking the main road along the Neretva river, at Drachevo we turned left at the road for the Hutovo Blato nature reserve. It was well signed, with a sizable billboard. Not far along this road you reach a...
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    Birding/Hiking Trip Report --- Balkans Region

    Recently (June 17-July 1) took a trip to the Balkans region, for birding mainly but also a fair amount of hiking and a bit of old town viewing. Thought I'd post it here to share what we saw and give some advice to others (I found it tough to find good info about birding there on the web)...
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