Thursday, June 28, 2007
Back to the bustards
After a few travels outside Hungary and two butterfly-based tours here, it was back to the bustards today. I took a family from England into the Kiskunsag region south of Budapest with Great Bustards as the number one aim... we had 3 sightings, 3 females in one crop field, then 11 males in another and finally a magnificent fly-by by a lone male. Later around the fish-ponds we saw Penduline Tits at the nest, Great Reed Warblers all over the place, several Ferruginous Ducks, lots of Purple Herons, Great White Egrets, 2 Green Sandpipers, 1 black coloured Ruff, a brief Little Bittern and Common, Black and Whiskered Terns. All in a day's work!
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Appetite whetted!
Rick
Tucson
Done deal! You show me an Ivory-billed Woody in the US of A and I'll show you at least a dozen Grreat Bustard here in Hungary. OK ?
In that case there's no reason to come to Hungary: it's precisely as easy to see a dozen Great Bustards in Arkansas or Florida as it is a single Ivory-bill.
r.
Ok, forget the Ivory-billed. But I will stick to my side of the deal... Great Bustards in Hungary, no ifs or buts.
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