Hi, I've been to Bulgeria for about 10 days with a friend a few months ago (first week of june). The first 3 days we focused on the Black Sea coast hoping to find ammodytes and other snakes. On the first day we spotted a lot of Natrix natrix (must have been around 30 individuals in total or something..), a big angry Dolichophis caspius and 1 little ammodytes. I didn't manage to get a picture of the last species... And.. we never saw an ammodytes again during the whole trip (so always keep your camera ready to shoot!). Other reptiles seen at the black sea coast: both Testudo species, Emys orbicularis, Natrix tesselata, Pseudopus apodus, Lacerta viridis. After that we went to the Rhodope mountains and spent some time on a camping with a nice British guy running this camp site, east of this mountain range. Reptiles added to our list here were: again both Testudo, Mauremys rivulata, DOR caspius, Podarcis tauricus, Cyrtopodion kotschyi, Podarcis erhardii, Lacerta trilineata, Ablepharus kitaibelii, lots of Malpolon, Zamenis longissimus.
Here are the pictures of some observed animals:
It would be shame not to show you guys some of the beautiful Bulgarian non-herps:
Bulgaria really is such an underrated country animal-wise. You see such a diversity in flora and fauna with such less effort.
Thanks for watching,
Pablo