Month: May 2015

In 2015 July there will be possibility again to photograph these magnificent creatures in a full yellow (sunflower) background. This only happens in every 4-5 years so this is a special occasion.

We still have some limited places in this hide for the first two weeks of July. You can see images with yellow background from the previous occasin (July 2011) HERE.

Red-footed Falcon male (Photo:János Oláh)

Red-footed Falcon male with yellow background (Photo:Attila Szilágyi)

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The latest report of the very popular and highly successful Hungary, Slovakia & Transylvania tour is now online and you can see it HERE!

The leader in 2015 was Gábor Simay and it was again an amazing tour with a wide range of great birds:

'This year’s highlights were nine species of owls including Ural, Eagle, Scops and Tengmalm’s Owls, ten species of woodpeckers (all the European breeding species) including superb views of White-backed and Three-toed Woodpeckers; nineteen species of raptors including Short-toed and Eastern Imperial, Lesser and Greater Spotted Eagles, Long-legged Buzzard, Red-footed Falcon and Saker; Great Bustard, Little Crake, Corncrake, Collared Pratincole, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Great Snipe, Wallcreeper, Thrush Nightingale, Moustached and River Warblers; and even some local rarities were found by the group, namely Pectoral Sandpiper and Slender-billed Gull.'

We still have available places for the 2016 tour! For more information of the tour and booking CLICK HERE!

Three-toed Woodpecker (Photo: Gábor Simay).

Yesterday late evening an Isabelline Wheatear was found by János with our hide photography group. This is the first ever record of the species on the Hortobágy and only the second for Hungary! More images on our FaceBook page what you can see HERE.

Isabelline Wheatear (Photo: János Oláh)

Isabelline Wheatear (Photo: János Oláh)

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We still have some places left for the 29 August to 5 September 2015 Danube Delta and Dobrudja tour! This is a fantastic tour to witness the autumn migration along the Black Sea coast with a whole range of exciting species! There will be plenty of raptors such as Booted Eagles, Lesser Spotted Eagles, Honey Buzzards, Levant Sparrowhawks as well as a wide range of waders which could include Borad-billed Sandpiper, Eurasian Dotterel and even Terek Sandpiper.

Surely some lingering breeders will be present like Pied Wheatear and Eurasian Rock Thrush.

You can check out the itinerary HERE.

If you interested to book this tour you can do it HERE!

Juvenile Honey Buzzard (Photo: János Oláh)

Pied Wheatear (Photo: János Oláh)

Juvenile Terek Sandpiper (Photo: János Oláh)

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The spring has arrived soon at the Hortobágy. The Great Bustard's lekking has begun sooner because of the unusual warm March. But the cool and windy first half of April has postponed it again so the best activity was at the end of April. Around our hide there were bustards regularly in late April. Here are some pictures by Ivo Paulik.

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In April the birdwatching tours started! We have got very succesfull tours behind us! All tours in April managed to see excellent displaying Great Bustards, all nine species of woodpeckers possible in Hungary, Saker and Great Snipe on migration. It is not a particularly good owl year but Ural and Eagle Owls performed very well too.

The birdwatching tours which also cover the Carpathian mountains are just about to start in the coming days. Our annual scouting trips however were sucessfull so we are looking forward to a bird-filled May as well!

Great Snipe was seen on all tours in April (photo: János Oláh)

Moustached Warblers were also performing well (Photo: Gábor Simay)

Ural Owl (by tour leader David Tomlinson)

Three-toed Woodpecker in the Carpathians (Photo: Gábor Simay)

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