Snowfinch in the Carpathian Basin!
There is a (White-winged) Snowfinch at Somoskő Castle, a few meters inside Slovakia (the village in Hungary, the castle in Slovakia), which is the first ever twitchable in the Carpathian Basin. Most of the previous observations are from present Slovakia but there are no records since 1968. Also it is not clear how many of the XIXth and XXth Century records are offically accepted.
This superb bird was found by Tímea Szederjesi and Eszter Angyal on the 29th of December so our great thanks goes to them!!!
A few images of the bird:
(White-winged) Snowfinch Photo: János Oláh
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The video of the 2001 Slender-billed Curlew on our website!
We have made the video of the 2001 Slender-billed Curlew available for anyone to view! It is now viewable from the link (banner) on the SAKERTOUR front page (bottom of the page).
Or you can click on this: http://www.sakertour.com/slender-billed_curlew.php
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Large number of geese still present on the Hortobágy
Although we had a short spell of ´proper´ winter with -20C temperatures and lots of snow, the geese still hold on in the Hortobágy in tens of thousands! In two days the temperature increased to +12 and we had rain all the way through Christmas (32C difference in 36 hours!). Still several large flocks of Red-breasted Geese and a few Lesser White-fronted Geese can be found among the hordes of Greater White-fronted Geese.
Red-breasted Geese adult and juvenile (on the right) Photo: János Oláh
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Season´s Greetings from Sakertour
Great eagle and buzzard activity around the hides
In the last few weeks White-tailed Eagles have been regular visitors to our eagle hides. Also Common Buzzards are daily guests in good numbers.
Fighting Common Buzzards Photo: Miroslav Zítek
Three days ago the Hortobágy got snow-covered so the eagle photography likely to be even better now. Two days ago there were 12 White-tailed Eagles in front of eagle hide II.
Adult White-tailed Eagle Photo: János Perényi
For more images from these hides recently please visit our hide gallery:
http://www.sakertour.com/hidegallery.php?hide=1&author=&text=
http://www.sakertour.com/hidegallery.php?hide=19
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New Images uploaded into our Awards archive!
We have just uploaded a few new images to our ever growing Awards archive. This time a regular guest and friend Csaba Lóki shared a few more of his 2009 winning images from our hides. Please check them out: http://www.sakertour.com/awards.php
Cranes at night Photo: Csaba Lóki
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