Danube Delta 2012 #2

A second installment from the houseboat Kingfisher, slowly heading back upstream today. As I type I can hear Golden Oriole, Nightingale and Redstart singing, while a noisy group of Bee-eaters are burbling away on the riverbank..

From the top... a rather splendid pair of Dalmatian Pelicans, being a lot more confiding than pelicans tend to be out here; a Marsh Frog (the soundtrack to the wetlands of the Delta is made up of these!), amongst the lovely Cloverleaf Fern; Paddyfield Warbler singing in the reeds behind Sachalin Island, alongside (unphotographed) Moustached, Reed, Great Reed and Savi's Warblers; Steppe Runner, another local speciality which occurs on sandy soils in the Delta, and then around the northern Black Sea across into Asia.