YAGODINA - TRIGRAD GORGE - PREVALA MOUNTAIN PASS - KRUMOVGRAD We had a 'cracker' of a day, literally! Nutcracker was our bird of the day by a long shot, what a great bird................
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FLIGHT LONDON TO SOFIA - TRANSFER TO YAGODINA IN THE WESTERN RHODOPES - LUNCH AND BIRDING NEAR PAZARDZIK QUARRY
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Our very last birding outing saw us up and out at 6am. We visited some vine-yards just out of town to look for Woodlark.........
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Eger Lake - Local Quarry - Bukk National Park - Local fish ponds Our last full day went off with a fizz rather than a bang, it was dull and overcast with rain to start with but warmed and brightened a little by the afternoon.
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HORTOBAGY PONDS AT HOLOSTÒ - HORTOBAGY PLAINS It is now getting hard to find new birds for the trip we have seen nearly 140 species and just a few 'goodies' are missing from the list, today we tried to fill the gaps a little and to get better views of some special species.....
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LOCAL BIRDING - NOVAJ VILLAGE - EGER PARK - TISZA LAKE - EARLY FINISH A good day out in great May weather, plenty of sunshine with some cloud. We saw plenty of species but very few new ones for our trip list. Bird of the day was a LESSER SPOTTED EAGLE which showed extremely well.
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BÜKK HILLS NATIONAL PARK -BORSUD-MEZO PLAIN - LOCAL LAKES AND REFUSE TIP! A mixed bag of sites and species today, we had great success with the afternoon target species but dismal results during the early morning outing.........
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EGER ZSOLOK LAKE - POLGAR WETLANDS A very nice dry day with lovely temperatures and little wind produced a number of excellent sightings including some very hard to find Locustella warblers...........
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The Hortobágy is an 800 km² national park and is Hungary's largest protected area, also the largest natural grassland in Central Europe with cattle, sheep, oxen, horses, tended by herdsmen, and it provides habitat for various different species (342 bird species have been recorded in this puszta (great plain). We spent all day there and recorded over 90 species of birds in some wonderful habitat.
Read ArticleLONDON TO BUDAPEST - TRANSFER TO EGER - SHORT WALK AROUND HOTEL GROUNDS Our flight was delayed by 30 minutes but we touched down in Budapest more or less on time. The weather was good with sunny spells and 17C.
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