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.

Red-breasted Flycatcher ... always a winner!

Next up for Probirder ? Austria and the Czech Republic. Here is one of the birds we hope to see, Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) snapped on a previous trip in the foothills of the Alps.

Hot off the press... Penduline Tit

Another birding trip successfully completed, a week in Hungary, mainly in the Kiskunság lowlands and the Zemplén Hills. Here is one of the last birds we saw, this morning before heading for Budapest Airport, a Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus). This little gem is always very popular.