Month: May 2016

Our longest and most popular birding tour, the Hungary, Slovakia  Transylvania GT has ended and yet again it was a remarkable tour with a lots of tour highlights and fantastic birding in Eastern Europe! The report will be available soon but do not hesitate to book your place on this amazing tour for 2017!

Trip highlights from the 2016 Grand Tour:

– 228 species recorded (including 3 heard-only)

– 10 species of woodpeckers (with White-backed and Three-toed as the highlights)

– 9 species of owls recorded (the Tengmalm's Owl was heard only)

– unforgettable mega views of Pygmy Owl

– 5 species of grebes (the Slavonian a scarce passage migrant in Hungary)

– 16 species of raptors (including the mighty Saker Falcon)

– magnicifent views of all the 3 marsh terns

– huge male Great Bustard

– 3 species of snipes in the same plot

– mega views of the shy Nutcracker

– 17 species of warblers

– Wallcreeper on the ground

– 4 species of flycatchers

– good selection of scarce birds (Broad-billed Sandpiper, Black-winged Pratincole, Gull-billed Tern, Red-rumped Swallow, Sombre Tit etc.)

Wallcreeper is allways a great bird to see (Photo: János Oláh).

Sombre Tit is now also possible on this tour (Photo: János Oláh).

Sakertour team

The Danube Delta photography season started and the first tour has just finished. The vegetation in the delta is usually not existing in the early May period but still there were magical encounters in the delta. This time it was wild cat as well as the usual Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes, pelicans, egrets, ibises. The Macin National Park was great with superb Rock Thrush, Ortolan Bunting and other goodies! There is a little selection from early May 2016 below. For more images see our FB page or the hide gallery!

We have 2 last place available for 2016. The date for this tour is 18-25 June. You can find more information here.

Wildcat in the Danube Delta gave us an amazing 30 minutes drive away view in May 2016 (Photo: Zoltán Nagy).

Rock Thrush male in front of our hide in May 2016 (Photo: János Oláh).

Red fox looking for food (Photo: János Oláh).

Ortolan Bunting in front of our hide in May 2016 (Photo: János Oláh).

Collared Pratincole is allways a favorite (Photo: Zoltán Nagy).

Sakertour team