Hungary - Day 5

  Our final day birding in Hungary was spent visiting the Hortobágy National Park again. Our views of Great Bustard had been insufficient the previous day, so we tried another area where we hoped to find them. It initially looked like we would be drawing a blank again, but then Keiran spotted two males strutting their stuff in a distant field. Although far away, we were able to get brilliant views through the scopes.
  Next we returned to the Red-footed Falcon colony where we spent a few hours watching the birds. We wandered round to the far side of the colony where there was a tower built for birders to overlook the colony, but from there the birds were more distant and we ended up watching them from the woodland border as we had the previous day.
  For the rest of the day we birded the fishponds. This time we had time to explore all the lagoons, and we found the lagoons at the end of the site much more productive than those at the start, with many more species of waders, ducks and grebes. There were also large numbers of European Cranes, as well as numerous groups of Whiskered Terns, Little Gulls and Caspian Gulls all flying overhead. We left the site mid-afternoon to head back to Farm Lator, finishing off our brilliant birding in Hungary.
  We left the country the next day, but had no time for birding, leaving the Farm early in the morning for our lunchtime flight. I finally reached Halifax in the evening.

-Red-footed Falcon

-White-tailed Eagle

-Whiskered Tern

-Caspian Gull

-Red-necked Grebe

-White-spotted Bluethroat

-Little Gull

-Sand Lizard

-Eastern Green Lizard

-Weaver's Fritillary

-Southern Festoon

-Winter Damselfly

Species List:
Hortobágy National Park: Greylag Goose, Mute Swan, Common Shelduck, Garganey, Northern Shoveler, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal, Red-crested Pochard, Common Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, Common Pheasant, Little Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Feral Pigeon, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared Dove, Great Bustard, Common Cuckoo, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Common Crane, Black-winged Stilt, Pied Avocet, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Dunlin, Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Black-headed Gull, Little Gull, Caspian Gull, White-winged Tern, Whiskered Tern, Common Tern, Black Stork, Pygmy Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Great Egret, Little Egret, Squacco Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eurasian Spoonbill, Western Marsh Harrier, Montagu's Harrier, White-tailed Eagle, Long-eared Owl, Eurasian Hoopoe, Common Kestrel, Red-footed Falcon, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Hooded Crow, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Bearded Reedling, Moustached Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Savi's Warbler, Barn Swallow, Common House Martin, Wood Warbler, Willow Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Eurasian Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Common Nightingale, Bluethroat, Black Redstart, European Stonechat, Northern Wheatear, House Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Western Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting,