Whilst out running this morning apart from the three lovely deer that ran across my path I put my newly learnt bird watching skills to use (should I admit to being an out of the closet twitcher ?), I identified the following birds and have listed them below and have put in the Bulgarian names that I have learnt but the ones followed by a question mark I had to use Mr. Google on so could someone out there with better language skills than me (I think that means everyone!) confirm whether Mr. Google is correct as sometime his translation leaves a bit to be desired:

Woodpecker кълвач
Jay сойка
Raven гарван
Crow врана
Bullfinch червенушка ?
Greenfinch чинка ?
Crested Lark Качулата чучулига ?
Blue Tit Син синигер ?
Thrush млечница ?
Great Tit Голям синигер ?
Blackbird кос / черен птица ?

I must admit that the woodpecker call sounded like he was having a good laugh at this elderly person attempting to run in 6-8 inches of snow but only managing to slip and slide all over the place, well at least it gave him some amusement!

Very interesting sorry I can't help but our Chris is quite good so perhaps he will be a long soon.

Although this is a Bulgaria page you can click on what you want to look at (scroll down a little) once you have clicked to view it you will go to another page, then down on the left you can click English and you will see the english translation

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Many thanks for the link, identified a Common Buzzard from it this morning but whilst doing so managed to slip down a lovely snow covered muddy slope much to the amusement of my partner and our three dogs, I noted no assistance was offered between the laughter to help me back on to my feet!

Your welcome glad it helped.

Don't know if this helps Trev62 it's a list of birds found in Bulgaria with both the Bulgarian name and translated to English. Its in Word format

Many thanks, successfully downloaded and already put to good use.

Thanks again