Birding in Hungary IV
Thrusday 11 July 2024
On Thursday, my parents and I went for a birding session in the morning since my mum had still not seen any Bee-eaters yet. We saw a different path on google maps to the west of the lakes that seemed like a good spot for some new birds, in particular, some waders. We walked towards the Fas-to seeing a pair of Red-backed Shrikes and watching a Purple Heron land right in front of us in a field! We kept walking, hearing but not seeing a Beared Reedling and a juvenile Night Heron. When we arrived at Fas-to we were already hearing many Bee-eaters but we couldn't find them. We did see a Common Sandpiper flying from a mud bank on the side of the lake. Later, we had views of a flyover Sparrowhawk and a Great Reed Warbler. We soon arrived at the new path we saw and found that there were huge numbers of Woodpigeons that got frightened by us walking by. We stopped for a few minutes under a tree for some shade, having a beautiful male Golden Oriole fly past us. We kept walking find another Red-backed Shrike and 3 Yellow Wagtails. We continued finding our first flyover Bee-eater followed by a few more in its wake. My mum then noticed a small bird in the bushes, we think it was a young Nightingale but we will have to check afterwards. As we continued we noticed many raptors soaring over us, with Marsh Harriers, a Buzzard, a Kestrel and my lifer, Hobby. Despite the heat we continued on, finding more birds than you could ever imagine! We saw Night Herons, Purple Herons, Grey Herons and Great White Egrets. Not forgetting all the Bee-eaters and Marsh Harriers. We even saw a Black-winged Stilt in a large flock of Lapwings and (at last!) my first Coot for the holiday. After getting in a bit of a mess with getting back to the main road we walked to the hide hearing Bearded tits again and getting a very quick glimpse of the Little Bittern we saw yesterday. The heat was getting quite bad by now with a humid 32 Celcius. We walked home quite quickly afterwards, at last seeing the Beared Reedlings from before.
A distant photo of my lifer Hobby
A beatiful Bee-eater with food
on a wire
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