Limosa Cranes & Brown Bears Tour just finished
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Our 10-day long Hungary and Romania Limosa tour has just ended (27th September to 6th of October). We were very lucky to have 9 days of sunshine with almost all our targets seen in this period! The autumn colours were absolutely amazing! We had not less than 9 Brown Bears in the pine forests of Hargita. The birds were fantastic: we started in the Hortobágy with Lesser White-fronted Geese and Dotterels, then Transylvania with Pygmy and Ural Owls, 5 Wallcreepers (virtually over our head), Greater Spotted Eagle, Three-toed Woodpecker, Capercaillie, Ring Ouzel, Nutcracker etc. and a final action packed day in the Hortobágy again with Great Bustards, Sakers and about 35 000 Cranes! A truly memorable tour! The full report is soon to come!
János Oláh
Limosa tour starts on the 16th August
On the 16th August one of our partner tours is starting. This is a special late summer tour in the Hortobágy and the Zemplén. Focusing on scarce passage waders and the usual specialities. The leader on our side will be János Oláh.
Autumn passage building up now in the Hortobágy with a Grey Phalarope and the first Great Snipe.
Check out the tour itinerary: www.limosaholidays.co.uk/newsDetail.cfm?newsID=141
Activity in front of our Pygmy Cormorant Hide getting better with up to 30 Pygmy Cormorants there daily plus a few days ago a fine Little Crake was photographed there too.
Will keep you updated about the tour!
the Sakertour team
Three days in Krassó-Szörény
Last weekend (22-24. August, 2008.) I made a short trip to southern Transylvania (Krassó-Szörény). Along the river Danube Crag Martins were quite common, while a couple of Red-rumped Swallows and Alpine Swifts joined the huge focks of migrating Barn Sawallows.
As the weather conditions were excellent, birds of prey were soaring everywhere, with many Lesser Spotted and Short-toed Eagles, while a few White-tailed Eagles, Golden Eagles and Peregrines were also observed.
Best of all, a Sombre Tit, which is a very rare resident of the Carpathian Basin, was seen in a new locality.
Gábor Simay
Hungarian Bird Race
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Our annual Hungarian Bird Race has just finished in the Hortobágy and we were delighted that Gábor Simay (one of our principal guides) was in the winning team! Gábor Horváth, Szilárd Cser and himself observed 121 species in 24 hours within the Hortobágy Fishpond complex on foot!
Congratulations to all of them!
Sakertour Team
(Gábor Horváth, Szilárd Cser, Gábor Simay – from left to right)
Limosa Tour just finished
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Our 8 days tour with Limosa Holidays just finished yesterday with great success!
We had several sought-after birds which are not easy to see in August at all.
In the Zemplén Hills we managed to get crippling walk-away views of Ural Owl and Eagle Owl. We also had seen 9 species of woodpeckers including the rare White-backed Woodpecker.
The Hortobágy area gave us Great Bustard, Long-legged Buzzard, Saker, Little Crake, Dotterel, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Thrush Nightingale just to name but a few.
On our return journey to Budapest airport we saw an adult moulting Great Black-headed Gull with a flock of 115 Black Storks! A great finish for an action-packed week in Hungary!
János Oláh