Mikepércs: Tits

As I live in Mikepércs already I had to find a proper place for a hide and for a bathing pool in the future. The hide has been built in the forest the next task is to attract the birds to that place. 

The tits have soon discovered the feeder and their number is increasing. For the present the great tit and the marsh tit come regularly:

Great Tit

Marsh Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

Mikepércs: Life at the Pond

The subsided water on the pond at Mikepércs attracts many shore birds in september. So I had a try today at taking some shots from the hide I had placed at the margin of the water. I've  spent half of the day there. Here I met the dunlin for the first time:

Dunlin

Dunlin

Dunlin

Ruffs arrived at the subsided water as well:

Ruff

Then snipes came:

Common Snipe

Common Snipe

The  young white wagtails hunted for insects:

White Wagtail

Ruff

Common Snipe

Later a flock of lapwings landed, some of them having a bath:

Lapwing

Lapwing

Lapwing

Some of them came very close:

Lapwing

Preening:

Lapwing

Grado, Italy: Yellow-legged Gull

Caspian Gull in the lights of the sunset:

Yellow-legged Gull

Grado, Italy: Mediterranean Gull

During our excursion to Italy I met this gull on the seashore:

Mediterranean Gull

Slovenia: At the Bled Lake

The first stage of our excursion to Italy was the Bled Lake in Slovenia. It's an amazingly beautiful place:

The Bled Castle

In the middle of the lake stands the Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary on a small island:

 

Szepes, Debrecen: Dragonfly

Today I tried to take photos at the pond near Szepes. But the birds didn't come close enough (they didn't have enough time to get used to the hide as it hadn't been there). This dragonfly however was flying quite close for a long time:

Migrant Hawker Dragonfly

Debrecen: Bees and Pollination

Today I took some macro shots near the Tócó stream. The bees were busy gathering pollen which covered almost their whole body:

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Poroszló: The water promenade on Lake Tisza

During a trip on the Tisza Lake we went along the water promenade. The birds here have got used to the human presence so you don't need long tele lens to take decent photos of them:

Young Whiskered Tern

Szepes, Debrecen: At the drying pond

The water level of the ponds near Szepes has decreased so much that placing my hide on branches wich I put on the margin of the pond the hide didn't dip into the mud. 

I got there at dawn and didn't have to wait long, my first visitor was this curious sedge warbler:

Sedge Warbler

Later the white wagtails came to catch insects from the dried mud:

White Wagtail

Then a little ringed plover arrived chasing insects:

Little Ringed Plover

There were other species too like wood sandpipers, common sandpipers and ruffs.

Szepes, Debrecen: Harriers

I started the marsh harrier project. I've made a hide which I took to a pond near Szepes and I installed it on a place where I often saw marsh harriers. My hope was that one of them would land some time on the elder bush in front of my hide. They didn't do this favor for me. So I had to satisfy with the flight photos:

Marsh Harrier

Marsh Harrier