Hides

Generally there are 2 different ways of Bird Photography: you either use professional hides or you can walk or drive around taking photos which we call birds "as you go"

1. Professional Hides

The following is just a short list of Hides and potential species at each

Drinking and Feeding Station Hides in the garden:

Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Redstart, Long-tailed tit Northern form, Turtle Dove, Collared Dove, Hawfinch, Tree Sparrow, Nuthatch, Great & Blue Tit, Tree Pipit, Blackbird, Robin, Eurasian Jay, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Lesser Spotted, Greater Spotted and very rarely Black Woodpecker

Mobile Hides:

Roller, Hoopoe, Bee-eater, Red-backed & Lesser Grey Shrike, Tawny Pipit, Stonechat, Whinchat & many more

Tower Hide - less than an hour away:

Red-footed Falcon, Kestrel, Jackdaw, Lesser Grey Shrike, European Roller

Freshwater Lake Floating Hide- less than an hour away:

Black-winged Stilt, Squacco Heron, Ferruginous Duck, Pygmy Cormorant, Purple & Night Heron, Little & Great White Egret, Bearded Tit, several Acrocephalus Warblers, rarely Moustached Warbler

Alkaline Lake Shorebird Hide - less than an hour away:

Avocet, Sandpipers, Plovers, Gulls and Terns & many more

Raptor Feeding Station Hide during Winter:

White-tailed & Imperial Eagle, Rough-legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier

2. BIRDS „AS YOU GO”

Bird Photography by visiting different habitats, key locations for target species. According to many bird-photographers who visited us from different countries (UK, USA, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany) it is quite amazing that several species easy to photograph at our area even without using a professional hide, partly because of the abundance of birds, partly because they usually feel safe.

-Great Bustard, Stone Curlew, Collared Pratincole, White & Black Stork

-Bearded Tit, Penduline Tit, Moustashed Warbler, Great Reed Warbler

-Cuckoo, Golden Oriole, Tawny Pipit, Stonechat, Whinchat, Corn Bunting, Crested Lark

-Saker Falcon, Imperial & Short-toed Eagle, Long-legged & Honey Buzzard, Goshawk

-Marsh-, Montague’s-, Pallid & Hen Harriers

-Scops-, Tawny-, Long-eared-Owls, (plus Eagle- and Ural Owls possible in Bukk Hills)