Griffon Vultures galore!

Just back from Spain, the Western Pyrenees in Navarra to be precise. We saw many great birds including daily groups of Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus). Here is one that came in low! 

Another Hungary trip done!

Lost count of the number of tours Probirder has led in Hungary, Anyway, another one just successfuly completed... highlights included all 8 woodpeckers in one morning, many Hawfinches, 9 Long-eared Owls in one tree, raptors on passage galore and waders like this Wood Sandpiper.

Zeiss Victory SF binoculars

I am very pleased and proud to have just received a pair of Victory SF 10x42 binoculars from those nice folks at Zeiss in Germany. I have already tried them out and can say... WOW ! 

Large Saw-tailed Bush-cricket

Large Saw-tailed Bush-cricket (Polysarcus denticauda), Hungary, June 2015. Grabbed this shot before it hopped off...

Black Redstart, Hungary

Here is a male Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) at Aggtelek, NE Hungary. A quite common bird in the region, this one posed in a village as I ate breakfast.

Black-headed Bunting in Dalmatia.

Black-headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala), a male photographed in Dalmatia, Croatia,a few days ago.  

Red-footed Falcon

Well that is yet another birding tour successfully completed. Here is one of the many good moments from the trip... a male Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus declaring to everyone that this nest-box is his! Kiskunság, Hungary, Gerard Gorman.