Danube Delta Photo tours /June
Spring photo season in the Danube Delta soon reaches its end. We had again fantastic photo opportunities with different situation every week. In June the main breeding took place for many species and more and more youngster’s appears every day. From mid June some northern migrants start their migration south. These are adult birds with still nice, breeding plumage!
Since we are soon in the end of the season we will prepare all the reports and made it available to you.
Black Tern (Photo: Zoltán Baczó)
Whiskered Tern is the commonest tern in the Danube Delta (Photo: Zoltán Baczó)
White-winged Black Terns started to appear in the second half of June (Photo: Zoltán Baczó)
Sakertour team
Danube Delta Photo Tours / May
Our newly developed photo services in Romania had a very good start. We already finished two photo trips in May and both were really successful and productive! We can safely say our specially designed photo boat and drinking hide working excellently! With `Borzas` photo boat we approached birds very efficiently and all participants had plenty of moments to make good quality pictures. Our drinking hide also works well, but due to the extremely rainy May we haven’t experienced the best face of it, yet.
Soon we will made trip reports available in our Danube Delta blog, but until then enjoy a few pictures from the May trips here. Reports from June tours coming soon too!
Dalmatian Pelican (Photo: Beat Rüegger)
Kingfisher (Photo: Beat Rüegger)
Barred Warbler from the drinking hide (Photo: Beat Rüegger)
Curlew Sandpiper from the lagoons of Black Sea (Photo: Attila Szilágyi)
Sakertour team
Travelling Naturalist 2012 spring tour
During the last week of May we had wonderful birding in Hungary with the Travelling Naturalist group. The weather was nice and not too hot, but often too windy.
The trip coincided with the influx of the Rose-colored Starlings which lasted only for a couple of days. During this we were lucky enough to find two flocks of this superb species. We also had many great views of the nine different species of woodpeckers, raptors like Long-legged Buzzard, Saker Falcon or Eastern Imperial Eagle. We had great views of Stone Curlews and we saw the breathtaking display of a leking male Great Bustard!
White-backed Woodpecker
River Warbler
Bee-eater (Photos: Simay Gábor)
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