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Bird photography in Hungary  

With around 50 species under the belt, a week’s bird photography in Hungary just wasn’t enough time to enjoy the spectacular environs of Hortobagy National Park. This was my first trip to Hungary and I wasn’t disappointed even though the weather was against us! Over the course of 6 day’s hard core nature photography working from hides for around 10 hours a day, I notched up 50+ species all photographed to a high standard – normally I’d expect to do a few birds really well then have some ‘fillers’ but on this trip there were so many ‘portfolio’ images. I did dip on one of my target birds, the spoonbill, but things like black stork and red-footed falcon went some way to assuaging me. I would have liked more action from the red-foots but it wasn’t to be though at the drinking pools we had non-stop action from finches, warblers, thrushes, woodpeckers and even sparrowhawk.Turtle dove, such a rarity in the UK these days, was very common and a regular feature from several of the hides. I still have many, many images to edit down but I decided I had to post a few as I’ve other stuff I need to get on the blog from more recent shoots in the UK. Here are just a few of my favourites so far, including the ‘wide angle’ shot of grey heron created with a 500mm for that gorgeous shallow DOF.