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On 23 June I was sitting on our terrace eating cherry and thinking about the matters of life with my camera in my hand because I wanted to take photos of the male Black Redstart that breeds every year under the eaves. It was a real pleasure. The white homing pigeons of a far street [...]

Besides the regular check of mountain Imperial Eagle territories where we decided not to ring chicks years ago, I spent two days with Márton Horváth, Imre Fatér, Tamás Szitta and other colleagues in the lowlands in mid-June ringing eagles and collecting food remains and feathers.  As in the previous season Attilla Bereczky, a professional tree [...]

Honey Buzzards arrived at their territories in early May and still often perform the distinct “wing-clapping” display flight. While we attempted to find the nest site of a Lesser Spotted Eagle pairs from a vantage point with my friend Gábor Domboróczki I was lucky and could take closer flight photos about two adult Honey Buzzards. [...]

During the last few months I spent a lot of time organizing the Budapest Conference on „Power lines and bird mortality in Europe” under a contract to MME/BirdLife Hungary. This is an extremely important bird conservation issue since mortality on power lines, due to collision and especially electrocution, has been confirmed as one of the [...]

I took this photo of a young female Peregrine after it had been ringed by Miklós Váczi in the Bükk Mountains on 14 may 2008. The colour ringed bird has recently been identified as the female of one of the breeding pairs in the Pilis Mountains over 120 km west of its natal territory. More [...]

I spent some really exciting hours with two female and an adult male Kestrels at the end of April. They did not start incubating yet and were really active. The younger female was constantly harassing the older one, which withstood the attacks in an interestingly bending-forward position and spreading her tail feathers. Apparently, they fought [...]

On 23th April I visited a Marsh harrier breeding site. Two older adult and a first adult male and two females used the approximately 5.5 ha area. They were all busy but I did not observe any aggressive behaviour during my 3-hour staying; the males rarely performed display flights in spite of the excellent weather. [...]

Less than two weeks ago a 2nd cy Imperial Eagle was found poisoned south of Bükk National Park, Hungary. Fortunately, the bird was given antidote within half an hour and this saved his life. Since 2008 this has been the third known poisoning incidents in the area resulting in the loss of a total of [...]

Eagles before incubation The incubation of most of the Imperial Eagle pairs is well advanced by now and the first chicks can be expected by late April and early May. I uploaded two photos from early March to the New Images gallery. The mate of the male eagle below was incubating before 15th March. I [...]

Last week finally everything clicked together for a 2-day photo-session: the weather (10 cm of snow) and the birds (more than 10 different individuals of Common Bizzards). Since I can’t get enough of flight shots I spent basically the whole period of 2 days working on them. Enjoy the pictures! Gabor