Danube Delta in winter Photography Tour is an amazing experience! Weather is changeable nowadays so you need a bit of luck, but that is true generally for photographing nature! All our target subjects were available in 2026 but opportunities are different and changing throughout. It is important to bring enough winter clothing as the night sessions can be cold! We had temperature down to -9C on some occasions in late Januaryof and early February in 2026. Our comfortable base has nice warm rooms and excellent local cusine! Subjects are plentyful but Golden Jackals in winter coat, Dalmatian Pelicans in breeding dress, fishing White-tailed Eagles, Pallas’s Gulls and Wildcats are amongst our top targets. Indeed we had as many as 9 sightings of Wildcats this winter and an amazing 4 sightings of European Mink! If you looking for an unusual tour out of the beaten track, the winter Danube Delta is certainly one! Come and join us next year, places are limited as the timeframe for such a tours are short! All the images below are taken in 2026!

If you have a spare hour you can listen to Janos chating with Jon and Charles in the latest mammalwatching PODCAST also about our Romania Mammal Tour.

Hortobagy National Park is an amazing birding and photography destination! In winter around 200-250 White-tailed Eagles and 20-30 Eastern Imperial Eagles roam the vast grasslands, fishponds and forests. Sakertours in cooperations with the national park is operating eagle feeding stations and several different raptor hides for photography. A visit to these hides can be an amazing experience! There is no other place or hides in Europe where you can see up to 100 or 120 eagles in just 2-3 days. It is a fantastic sight to see such a huge raptors close-up and in action. White-tailed Eagles are virtually guranteed at the hides but of course numbers and opportunities slightly weather dependent. We also regularly have Eastern Imperial Eagle at the hides but especially on those days when less White-tailede Eagles visitng (as they are larger and more dominant). So if you have a day or an afternoon when not many White-tailed Eagles around you can hope for an Eastern Imperial Eagle. One of our hide is more for buzzards and the mighty Saker Falcon – the namesake of our company. And great news that yet again in the 2025-2026 winter season our regular pair of Sakers has been visiting the hide and even more good news that some other young Sakers has been photographed. Still you need luck as these falcons usually visit the hide area 3 or 4 times in a week. All in all the Hortobagy National Park is turly remarkable place to visit!

Autumn migration in the Hortobágy National Park is amazing but especially famous for the masses of cranes and geese. While October is mostly about the 100 000 – 200 000 Common Cranes and their migration spectacle (watch this video by Janos Crane roost in the Hortobágy National Park) the month of November is all about geese! We have created a tour a few years ago which is targeting to see two rare geese, the Red-breasted Goose and the Lesser White-fronted Goose. Our Red-breasted Goose Special Tour is a short break visiting the Hortobágy National Park which is one of the handful of sites in the World where the two geese species can reliably seen. And the available supporting cast is also excellent with Great Bustard, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Saker Falcon, Long-eared Owls and even Wallcreeper in most years. Yes, a great selection of top birds in such a short time!

Our 2025 tour under Dániel Balla’s expert guidence was excellent again with many sightings of both geese! Although last year was an exception when very few Red-breasted Geese were seen in the Hortobágy (in 2024) but even in such conditions we managed to find the species! However in 2025 numbers were back again and it was an excellent tour with all the top targets performing very well in exceptional great weather!

Come and join us in 2026 to see Red-breasted and Lesser White-fronted Goose! Tour date os already online!

As usual the Hortobágy National Park in the Autumn months is hosting large numbers of all kind of birds from thousands of Gadwalls and Green-winged (Eurasian) Teals through hundreds of shorebirds including – this year only several dozen – Eurasian Dotterels and of course the Common Cranes are just coming, their numbers already getting close to 50.000 in the area.

However, this year the National Park was hosting an astonishing number of Red-footed Falcons, whose numbers are usually carefully followed by the officials of the park and volunteers from the area. The census counts done every week, the mid September count producing an incredible result with over 8000 individuals staying around with a megaroost, where over 5000 Red-footed Falcons were coming together for the night forming the largest ever recorded single roost in the Carpathian Basin.

In the recent years numbers between 1000 and 2000 individuals were seen here, but this year’s numbers shooting out was a great surprise and of course fantastic experience to observe.

It has been a great team coming together on our first Serbia Butterfly Tour as we were searching for some great species in the Balkanian state of Serbia. We managed to find all our proposed targets including some of Europe’s most difficult ones like the False Comma, Lesser Lattice Brown and the dark from of Poplar Admiral (tremulae). But there were many more beauties like Violet Copper, Blue Argus, Freyer’s and Bog Fritillaries, Large Chequered Skipper and of course many many more during this short trip.

Check the details of this trip under the nature tours section or by clicking here.

The Danube Delta in winter is an exciting adventure and it did not dissapoint us in 2025 with many great photo opportunities! The breeding plumaged Dalmatian Pelicans in the snow, magical Eurasian Otters on ice, Golden Jackals fighting in their magnificent winter coat, full breeding plumaged Pallas’s Gulls, Wildcats at night, fishing White-tailed Eagles and even a few sightings of the critically endangered European Mink were certainly the highlights of the 2025 season! Please take a look at the tour description and you will see theat the Danube Delta has so much more to offer compared to a visit to Lake Kerkini. And there are even more opportunities to those aformentioned highlights such as Long-eared and Tawny Owls at night, breeding plumaged Great Cormorants, fantastic drone photography and winter-mode delta fishermens. It is a superb tour indeed if the weather is in our favour and most of February was excellent in 2025. The window for this tour is very limited hence this is a rather exclusive tour and definitely a great experience for those who up for the winter challenges! If you are interested in such an adventure you can find the 2026 tour dates online now!

It has been a great autumn for birding in the Hortobágy region. The very spectacular Crane season, where more than 150.000 Common Cranes are staging inside the Hortobágy National Park was again providing some unforgettable experience for birders visiting the area with seeing them on their night roost being the highlight of every birding tour this time. Of course, other specialities of the area still present at the same time and probably this time of the year is the best to see as many Eastern Imperial Eagles as possible in the region if someone is mainly after the raptors, although Saker Falcon is usually harder this time we still have good chances of finding one.
The other spectacle later Autumn is when the huge numbers of wild geese arriving from Siberia are flooding the area giving a great chance to find the endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose and Red-breasted Goose in the seemingly endless flocks of Greater White-fronted Goose. However, this year the geese were a bit late, fortunately, it seems they arrived in good number by the second half of November and both endangered species are now presenting in good numbers inside the safe borders of the Hortobágy National Park.

Seeing a wild Eurasian Lynx in daytime is dream for mammalwatchers! Most of us just dream about such an encounter and it never happens but sometimes dreams come true for some! We were lucky to encounter a Lynx on a fresh kill in September 2024. Our guide Szabolcs Kovács has been exploring the Hargita Mountains with clients when they spotted a fresh Roe Deer carcas. Szabolcs realized it was freshly killed by a Lynx, you need to know what you see! As an experiment we positioned a mobile hide in a safe distance and waited if the Lynx would come back. And not only she did come back but brought along her two Lynx cubs. They had been visiting the carcas several times in the next 46 hours. The Roe Deer was finished in less then two days. They were mostly visiting in the early hours of the day and also in the afternoon. Those 2 days were very special and we are happy that most of our team who is involved with our mammal tours or Lynx tours managed to see this beautiful animal. Even some very lucky clients could enjoy it. Thanks for all to make it happen but especially for Szabolcs!

We regularly encounter wild Eurasian Lynx on our early spring Eurasian Lynx Tour but especially the Lynx Photography Tours led by our expert Lynx tracker Ferenc Alpár Gothárd. It is not something we can guarantee but every time we definitely try hard to find one!

Our annual tour to Romania has ended. This is a relatively short 9 days tour aiming to see as many mammal species as possible! Yet again it was an action packed tour with a lot of mammal sightings and fantastic starry nights in the Danube Delta and the Carpathians. This year we saw an amazing 58 species of mammals and this was the first time we could observe the rare Marbled Polecat. There were many other highlights too which included a rather brief European Mink sighting as well as Eurasian Forest & Hazel Dormouse, Romanian and Common Hamster, Northern Birch Mouse, Bechstein’s and Geoffroy’s Bats and five spoecies of shrews! A great tour with lots of fun! This is still the ultimate mammal tour in Europe, so if you want to see mammals in this continent this is a tour for you! Come and join us in 2025!