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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

I have checked countless pictures of raptors in books and on the internet and I always concluded that flight shots can’t be surpassed. I know it’s quite subjective but I believe this behavior expresses the best what is a raptor about. It’s been a while since I planned to take some quality flight pictures of certain [...]

Each year in mid-January raptor fans take part in a synchronised winter eagle count called “Sasszinkron” in Hungarian (“sas” = “eagle”). It is organised on the same day in most regions of Hungary and participants use the same method in order to get the most accurate national estimation on the number of wintering eagles. On [...]

Dear Visitor! We are happy to inform you that we have created a gallery called NEW IMAGES.  Our new pictures will be uploaded here at the size of 900 pixels on the longer side. We will keep these pictures in the gallery for a month and then we move them to the gallery they belong to. Enjoy [...]

We spent a few hours with raptor watching in the north-east of the Heves Plain on 5th January with my friend Attila Bartha. The sky was dull but we saw a relatively good number of birds of prey in spite of the snow cover: 15+ White-tailed Eagles but only two adult Eastern Imperial Eagles perching [...]

With my wife and the kids we spent the turn of the year in Debrecen and had really great time with my parents. While driving on the way back home we counted 84 Common Buzzards, 1 Rough-legged Buzzard, 8 Kestrel and 1 imm/ad female Hen Harrier in a 100m-wide transect along the road between Debrecen [...]