Our 2015-2016 eagle photography season finished with great results
Our eagle photography season of 2015/2016 winter has finished and now we looking into the busy spring photography! However we have decided to summerize the past 90 days which also give you information in case you have not been with us yet and planning an eagle photography tour to Hortobágy National Park in Hungary!
We use two main hides for the eagles and we primarily feed the eagles with fish. Our company operates two of the three eagle feeding stations of the national park. The weather has been very mild in the past years and it was pleasantly better in 2015/2016 as we have had daytime subzero temperatures from 27th December to 18th January. This was often paired with frost or even snow on the ground (snow cover was 12 days – twice as much as in 2014/2015). At the same time the weather was extremly mild in February which is very unusual.
Our season was 88 days this year and we had information on the eagle activity every day. White-tailed Egales were present 88 days at one hide (100%) and 86 days at the other (cc 98%) which is an amazing result. Even our buzzard hide have had 24 eagle-days (27%). The numbers were variable but usually 5-12 White-taild Eagles were present, though occasionally only 2-3 showed up. Especially in February – with the mild weather – the activity was even stronger and the record number was 62 White-tailed Eagles at one hide, and 9 at the other hide plus 3 at buzzard hide in the same day. This is 74 White-tailed Eagles in one single day at our 3 raptor hides! This season was also very good for Eastern Imperial Eagle as we had 22 days when this species was seen and photographed from our hides. They occured at all three raptor hides. A total of minimum 5 different birds were photographed. This year we also had Golden Eagle on 3 days. Some lucky photographers have had three eagle species in one single day!
Our next eagle photography season is starting on the 1st of December 2016. If you still looking for a short photography tour in winter check out our dates for the 2016-2017 eagle season!
Eastern Imperial Eagle was regular in 2015-2016 eagle season (Photo: Paul Bestall)
White-tailed Eagles were daily visitors at our hides (Photo. Otto Samwald)
Adult White-tailed Eagle face to face with photographer (Photo: János Oláh)
Sakertour team