'Halasto Fish Ponds' is an area in the centre of Hortobagy National Park with hundreds of old traditional fishponds, ranging from huge ones to smaller ponds. They are all characterised by their surrounding large reedbed vegetations.
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28/11/2013When entering the wet puszta, the bird densities and all-over presence of marsh species becomes even more striking. In particular when compared to Western Europe, the abundance of many good indicator species of wetlands is just mindblowing. -
27/11/2013Hortobagy is a large Hungarian National Park which lies in the Pannonian Steppe. The Pannonian Steppe is the typical kind of steppe found in Central Eastern Europe. It stretches out from Neusiedler See in Austria, over the Hungarian Plains, Romania and Ukraine. -
10/11/2013On the first of june 2013, I could observe during an entire morning the typical behaviour of European Bee-eaters at a colony in the Hungarian puszta. As soon as it started to warm up and the insects became active, the birds flew out of their nests to go foraging. -
28/09/2013Under here an image taken from inside the ‘Passerine Drinking Hide’, where I spent two full days in june 2013 and one day at the end of july in 2010.