A Norwegian Ruff

After witnessing the shorebird spectacle at Snettisham, Hasan and I made a quick visit to the Titchwell RSPB Reserve in a hope to find one of the Yellow-browed Warblers. As we tried to get better views of this autumn beauty, a lady informed us about the presence of a Jack Snipe at the far cornerContinue

Migration-watch at the Tattenhoe Park local hotspot

It doesn’t really matter where I go birding these days as migration can be witnessed anywhere. This morning I went to the local park at the edge of the city to count migrating Redwings and other passage birds. The Tattenhoe Valley Park is a long stretch of semi-natural wooden and bushland habitats, small pools andContinue

Frampton Marsh visit

It’s been a busy weekend with the BirdFair at Rutland Water, but birding somehow wasn’t on the priority list. As expected, by Sunday afternoon I couldn’t stay indoor anymore, so I decided to explore another new coastal birding site. We visited the RSPB Frampton Marsh in Lincolnshire.Only a part of this vast area is accessible, but itContinue

My first ever shorebird research program

I was excitedly reading a recent e-mail received from the Head of the Bird Ringing Centre of BirdLife Hungary who confirmed that my application to study the migration of Little Ringed Plovers in Hungary was accepted and permitted. Now I can start to work on my first ever shorebird research program in detail as thereContinue

Another huge goose record

Today we went out again for our usual morning birding to the Old Lake of Tata. The team met in the observation tower. The whole morning was misty with limited visibility in the beginning what slightly improved later. Our goose expert, Laci Musicz predicted a possible record for today. Yesterday morning he counted 49.100 geeseContinue

Spectacular mega flock video of grackles and blackbirds

I came across this truly unimaginable video posted on Facebook today, showing a real birding spectacle what not every day one can witness. Steve Gifford’s caption tells everything. This is just a 60-second clip of a flock of grackles and blackbirds that took 20 minutes to pass by. This short video was taken at the Patoka RiverContinue

Massive Spotted Flycatcher flock in England

I normally don’t post birding news from the other parts of the country, especially not, if I am not there. Probably I should… Today, however, I couldn’t resist not to post a few lines about the massive migrating flock of Spotted Flycatchers seen by birdwatchers this morning at the Portland Bird Observatory in Dorset, south England.Continue

The spectacular Norfolk

After a successful business event on Saturday it was a gift to spend a whole day with my Hungarian friend, Attila Seprényi, around the northern coastline of Norfolk. He’s also a wader fan, living in Sweden, but been on a training here in the UK for a few weeks. I haven’t met him for aboutContinue

Have swallows returned… to wintering grounds?

It might be that I am new to the birds and birding in the United Kingdom, but probably the basic principle in bird migration hasn’t changed. In the Northern Hemisphere most of the birds are migratory and spend the winter off their breeding grounds. Swallows are no exceptions. They travel as far as South AfricaContinue

Incredible bird galore at the Old Lake of Tata

As I hoped this morning was simply mind-blowing. I made a 3.5 hours birding around the Old Lake, totaling about 8.5 km, with Dani. There was nothing exotic observed today but the bird abundance was like never before. During the 22 years I had spent in Tata this was the strongest of the spring migrationContinue