Hungary - Day 1

  After a weekend in Budapest for Kieran’s stag weekend, we took the following week out to visit some of the National Parks in the northeast of Hungary for birding. Jonnie had made reservations at Farm Lator, adjacent to the Bükki Nemzeti Park, a stunning area of well-maintained deciduous woodland. The lodge here was lovely, with excellent homemade meals provided and wonderful grounds and gardens surrounded by the forest.
  By the time we had travelled from Budapest, collected the minivan and some supplies it was already mid-afternoon, but we spent some time birding the garden where we had plenty of nice commoner woodland birds, as well as species that we would consider rare or local, such as Hawfinch, Wood Warbler, Serin and Marsh Tit. The highlight though was the pair of Collared Flycatchers which had set up territory in the garden. Although flighty and mobile, with patience we were rewarded with excellent views of the male and female.

-Collared Flycatcher

-Rana sp.

Species List:
Farm Lator: Common Wood Pigeon, Common Cuckoo, Common Buzzard, Tawny Owl, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Marsh Tit, Great Tit, Barn Swallow, Wood Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Long-tailed Tit, Common Starling, Song Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, European Robin, Common Nightingale, Collared Flycatcher, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Common Chaffinch, Hawfinch, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, European Serin,