Merry Christmas and a Bird-filled 2015 for everybody!
Great start to the eagle photography season on the Hortobágy!
Our eagle photography season started on the 1st of December and despite the rather mild weather – almost spring like – we have had a very succesfull two weeks! We had eagles visiting our hides from the very beginning and the numbers are continously increasing. We had our partner Tatra Photography here in the first weekend of December and everybody had superb sessions with eagles. This weekend we had a workshop for a Hungarian nature photography school and up to 36 White-tailed Eagles were recorded at our hides. This is a very impressive number for early December so we are hopeful for the rest of the season! We are eagerly waiting for snow and proper winter conditions now!
If you interested we still have two places left of our February 2015 tour!
Portrait of an adult White-tailed Eagle from December 2014 (Photo: János Oláh).
White-tailed Eagle at dawn by our hides from December 2014(Photo: János Oláh).
Juvenile White-tailed Eagle in early morning frost from December 2014 (Photo: János Oláh).
Adult White-tailed Eagle arriving (Photo: János Oláh).
Juvenile White-tailed Egale arriving (Photo: János Oláh).
Magnificent adult bird from December 2014 (Photo: János Oláh).
Juvenile eagle flying towards hide in December 2014 (Photo: János Oláh).
Sakertour team
Owl nestboxing in Autumn 2014
Our team had a long weekend in Transylvania – we missed those who could not make it! This was a nice social event as well as some great nature conservation work as we managed to install about 30 nest boxes. The weather was variable from sunny to snowy but the spirit was high and we had lots of fun.
Hopefully the birds will also like the new breeding places!
The nest-boxing team in Transylvania (Photo: Zoltán Gergely Nagy).
The nest boxing team in action (Photo: Zoltán Gergely Nagy).
Nest box for Ural Owl (Photo: Zoltán Gergely Nagy).
And this is what we HOPE! Ural Owl breeding in our artifical nestbox – image taken in May 2014 (Photo: János Oláh).
Sakertour team
Sakertour award at the 'The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year in Hungary 2014' competition
Sakertour is also a sponsor of the GDF Suez – The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2014 (Hungary) competition.
The special Sakertour prize was given to András Mészáros for the image named 'Black-winged Stilt love'.
Congratulations!
Photo by András Mészáros
Sakertour team