♀️ Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) cruising over my head. At a distance, it can sometimes look like a buzzard because it is so big and stocky. Not lightly built like most other harrier species. #BirdingHungary#harriers#raptors#BirdsOfPrey
😀 Yeah.. that's the way a lot of #waterfowl does it including #ducks , #geese , #loons , #grebes . The weight of the male pushes the female underwater yet somehow they can successully mate like that. But I have also seen ducks doing it on land.
A blast of colour to counteract the #MondayBlues 😄 Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas). Nice to see a fresh one so late in the year. In southern Europe, they can have up to three broods a year, so they are always keeping it funky fresh 😎 #WildHungary#butterflies#insects#bugs#MacroMonday
Saw this great copper-coloured fly feeding on goldenrod. No idea what species, except that it is likely a Calyptrate fly. Only about 18,000 species in that sub-family so that kind of narrows it down. 🤪 #WildHungary#MacroMonday#flies#bugs#insects
Another photo of yesterday's young Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca). This angle show the distended crop much better. It looked like it just swallowed a coconut! 😄 #BirdingHungary#eagles#raptors#BirdsOfPrey
A pair of ♂️ Bearded Reedlings (Panurus biarmicus) from this morning. They are always found in dense phragmites reed beds. I got lucky as they are heard a lot more than they are seen. #BirdingHungary#birds#reedlings
Somebody just had a good meal. This juvenile Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) with a bulging crop went soaring directly over my head this afternoon. #BirdingHungary#eagles#raptors#BirdsOfPrey
Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon before dawn this morning. Photo taken with my iPhone thru my scope. It was kind of like me (ie: not too bright 😂), & moonlight was washing everything out so the tail was not too apparent. May try again on a moonless night.. or just wait till it comes back in 1300 years. 😂
Couldn't resist going to see the Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) for a third time. It has been present at the same location for 2 weeks now. Unfortunately always distant. Here it is having a snooze in the morning sun. #BirdingHungary#shorebirds#lapwings#waders#plovers
The Eurasian Goshawk (Astur gentilis) was very interested in something in the grass, but it was being mobbed by Hooded Crows who eventually drove it away. #BirdingHungary#hawks#raptors#BirdsOfPrey#goshawks#birds
Saw this strange harrier hovering low over an open field. Then I realized.. that ain't no harrier! It's an adult Eurasian Goshawk (Astur gentilis)! 😳😳😳 An uncommon species in Hungary, so it was nice to see. #BirdingHungary#BirdsOfPrey#raptors#hawks#goshawks
Small White (Pieris rapae). It's small. It's white. It's so common that it often gets ignored. In North America known as the Cabbage White. The Latin name doesn't come from its preference for rap music 😄 It's reference to rapeseed, one of the many larval host plants for this species. #WildHungary
