The winter in Hungary is certainly varied this year (2009/2010)! It changes almost weekly and we are having all sorts of precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, ice, sleety rain) – we have had a lot! Unfortunately a rapid change does not help with the eagles and they can be rather unpredictable. Most of the time, however, at least one hide is visited by the eagles. See a few images below which were made in the last two weeks. Lots of images are due to be uploaded into our galleries so please keep checking:

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White-tailed Eagles   Photo: Attila Szilágyi

Juvenile White-tailed Eagle landing at eagle hide II. Photo: Attila Szilágyi

Juvenile White-tailed Eagle on a dead fox at eagle hide II. Photo: Attila Szilágyi

Adult White-tailed Eagle   Photo: Attila Szilágyi

Our Eastern Imperial Eagle hide is operational but this year the Imperials not visiting it yet. We believe it is mainly bacause of the lack of autumn food in the area (so lots of juveniles left the area) and also the generally very mild winter. We still hope that it will get better in the second half of January. Amazingly, however, an adult Eastern Imperial Eagle was seen and photographed for the first time fro one of our hides on the 5th January this year by Csonka Péter.

Adult Eastern Imperial Eagle Photo: Péter Csonka

We will have the annual eagle count on the 15th january so we will get to know the number of wintering eagles in Hungary. We will keep you posted!

Sakertour team