Note that there are also further observations provided by readers of the earlier book Finding Birds in Romania. These are available here

Review

A review of this book has been published in published in Birdwatch magazine. The reviewer, Ed Stubbs, concludes ‘I was left happily nodding along as I read this latest Gosney release, with many of his observations on the key sites matching my own. Thus, despite the incomparable availability of information these days...these trusty, cheap and conveniently-sized guides remain a useful tool for the travelling birder’

Ed also commented in the review that I’d missed out on the best bit of one of the sites (Sinoie marsh) so I wrote to ask him where I should have gone. He replied as follows:

Sinoie marsh

May 2019

From Sinoie, take the track east at 44.626792, 28.743839 and prepare for potholes! The stretch of farmland, all viewable from the car, between here and the peak of the hill at 44.627357, 28.802966 is excellent with Black-headed Buntings, Stone-curlews, Calandra Larks, Collared Pratincoles,
Isabelline Wheatears and Marsh Warblers all seen well.

The track slopes down and bends through a Bee-eater colony, before driving through reedbeds either side of the road. Here we had superb views of up to eight Paddyfield Warblers – specifically around 44.620764, 28.806987 was very productive. A little further on you can scan the pools and lagoons for the first time. In early May 2017 Boswell had hundreds of passage waders; I had none!
Keep on east and, at the junction, make sure you take the furthest south track at 44.619432, 28.811667. Then turn right at the fork at 44.617944, 28.810780, before driving north-west then south-west through the reed cutting area. You can then take your car as far as you fancy adjacent to
the pools and lagoon (morning is best, with the sun behind you).

As mentioned, we missed out on waders but, away from breeding colonies in the Danube Delta, this has to be the easiest site in spring/summer/autumn for Pallas’s Gull in Romania (and thus one of the easiest sites in the EU). Previous reports had success here in the large gull roost and it was the same for us – three birds, a first-summer and two-second summers. They were distant and heat haze didn’t help, along with the fact we approached on foot. However, if you aren’t visiting the delta, this is the place to see this species. Also here was a Caspian Tern, many Caspian Gulls and Great White
Pelicans. (Ed Stubbs)

[In the book I describe getting to the ‘marsh’ after 6km. Follow the embankment between the reeds, but at the end of this embankment turn RIGHT, (I turned left to the bridge) then follow tracks hugging the eastern edge of the marsh to the south of the embankment]