Hungarobirds, Kincses kert, Túrkeve (2026)

03/04/2026

There are still 2 people left to join our summer bird photography tour from June 5-12. During the tour we will use our hides to photograph the Bee-eaters, Rollers, Red footed falcons, and the drinking pool hides to photograph the birds at the water. In the afternoons there is an opportunity to photograph deer, hare and birds in the rice fields on the jeep safari, but during a boat trip we can also photograph the special birdlife of Lake Tisza. The picture was taken on Lake Tisza and shows a Squacco heron. Thank you Gary Spicer

28/03/2026

István and I have been working on renovating my two tower hides in the past few days. At the Roller hide, the window frame had to be repaired, while at the Red footed falcon tower, the branches and nesting boxes had to be repaired. Both towers are ready for the season. The Red footed falcon tower opens on April 25th, and the Roller hide opens on May 1st. I wish all my guests good light, good bird movement and a great photo season!

25/03/2026

Today was also a busy day. Today I took the nests for the Hoopoes out to the grasslands near the town. The two new nests offer an excellent opportunity to comfortably and safely raise their young. During the afternoon, however, a completely different type of task had to be carried out: In order to be able to go out to the hides, we need roads that can be driven on. During the winter, farmers often damage the field roads. Today I transformed such trails into passable ones. Now we can comfortably drive out to the forest hide, the lake hide and the hoopoe hide.

24/03/2026

Today, my friends and I visited the Red footed falcon colony in Túrkeve, where we fixed the nest boxes for the Falcons. We had a lot to do: we repaired, replaced, and cleaned. Now the Red footed falcons can come!

04/03/2026

The winter waters froze over nicely this year, so the waterfowl began to gather at the thermal water spouts or the open waters of faster-flowing river sections. In Túrkeve, one such place was the "Boating Lake" at the spout of the thermal bath. In the extreme cold, cormorants, Pygmy cormorants, great white egrets, little grebes, coots, grey herons, Bitterns and sometimes more interesting ducks appeared. The selection of birds was similar to the swirling waters of the Berettyó, but I also saw kingfishers there several times. Water rails and Moorhens were looking for food in the reedbeds. In recent 5 years, we have almost never had such a winter, and just as we have become accustomed to milder weather, more and more of our birds are thinking of trying to overwinter. This year, this story turned out to be a little tougher for them....

01/03/2026

The winter photography season ended on March 1. We can look back on a beautiful winter: with a beautiful snowy landscape and lots of birds. During our photography sessions, the long-eared owls, which roost in flocks on the evergreen trees in the surrounding towns, are always very popular. The results of the long-eared owl count held in mid-January were quite surprising for all of us, as we had never seen owls in such numbers before: In Túrkeve, we observed 844 owls gathered in a small area. These owls spend the day, which is their resting time, resting on the evergreen trees of the town, and in the evening, at dusk, they set off to hunt. The sight of the owls flying out is also wonderful, but if we want more than that, we can also photograph them at their roosting places, with maximum carefull and without disturbance. The attached photos were taken this year. In addition to the long-eared owls, we can often observe Short eared owls at the roostig places. If you are interested in owls and would like to join a photography tour during which you will have the opportunity to photograph these beautiful birds, please contact us with confidence. [email protected]

01/03/2026

The winter photography season ended on March 1. We can look back on a beautiful winter: with a beautiful snowy landscape and lots of birds. During our photography sessions, the long-eared owls, which roost in flocks on the evergreen trees in the surrounding towns, are always very popular. The results of the long-eared owl count held in mid-January were quite surprising for all of us, as we had never seen owls in such numbers before: In Túrkeve, we observed 844 owls gathered in a small area. These owls spend the day, which is their resting time, resting on the evergreen trees of the town, and in the evening, at dusk, they set off to hunt. The sight of the owls flying out is also wonderful, but if we want more than that, we can also photograph them at their roosting places, with maximum carefull and without disturbance. The attached photos were taken this year. In addition to the long-eared owls, we can often observe Short eared owls at the roostig places. If you are interested in owls and would like to join a photography tour during which you will have the opportunity to photograph these beautiful birds, please contact us with confidence. [email protected]

21/02/2026

One of the main target species of our spring and summer photography tours is the Hoopoe. This species lives in large numbers in Hungary, so it is not difficult to see it, but because they are generally shy, it is difficult to photograph them. However, photographing the Hoopoe becomes easier if we know where the birds nest or where they feed regularly. Early April is spent placing nest boxes for these beautiful birds in places where they can easily find a place to feed in the surrounding area. In the past 20 years, there has been perhaps one year when I have not been able to show my guests Hoopoes in front of my hides, but there have been several instances where there were 2-3 nesting pairs at the same time in the nestboxes I have provided them. I hope that this year will also be successful in terms of Hoopoes breeding and that we will be able to photograph these beautiful birds. Congratulations to Nigel Atkins, who took these few photos from Hungarobirds' hides in recent years. If you would like to photograph Hoopoes, Red-footed falcons, Rollers and Bee-eaters with us, please contact us: [email protected]

05/02/2026

A byproduct of photographing birds of prey is reading the ring numbers of the birds. This is not just a fad, it is data provision for scientific work and research. In January, we managed to identify quite a few birds based on the rings worn on their legs: Imperial eagles, White tailed eagles and even Common buzzards were in front of us with rings on their legs. The vast majority of Imperial eagles are birds ringed in nests in the area, but there were also some that came to visit us from Székesfehérvár, Heves County or even from the border areas of Austria. The majority of White tailed eagles were ringed in nests in the floodplain of the Tisza. Among the buzzards, we observed a bird that was ringed in Slovakia as a chick. The experiences of recent years show that while in the early 2000s, the rings read in the vicinity of Túrkeve showed that the majority of the wintering eagles were birds ringed in the Baltic Sea region, now, based on the rings read in the region, I can say that the vast majority of the eagles wintering in the region come from the surrounding area or from the surrounding regions to winter in the Dévaványa-Ecseg steppes.
Photo by Erzsébet Horváth

05/02/2026

A ragadozómadarak fotózásának mellékterméke a madarak gyűrűszámainak a leolvasása. Ez nem csak amolyan hóbort, ez tudományos munkához, kutatásokhoz adatszolgáltatás. Januárban jónáhány madarat seikerült azonosítanunk a lábaikon viselt gyűrűk alapján:
Parlagi sasok, rétisasok de még egerészölyvek is voltak előttünk lábukon gyűrűvel. Parlagi sasok döntő többsége a környékbeli fészkekben gyűrűzött madár, de volt olyan is amely Székesfehérvárról, Heves megyéből vagy akár Ausztria országhatár menti területekről érkezett hozzánk vendégségbe. A rétisasok többsége a Tisza árterében lévő fészkekben voltak gyűrűzve. Az egerészölyvek között megfigyeltünk egy madarat amelyik fióka korában Szlovákiában lett meggyűrűzve.
Az elmúlt évek tapasztalatai azt mutatják, hogy míg a 2000-es évek elején Túrkeve határában leolvasott gyűrűk arról tanúskodtak, hogy a telelő sasok között többségében a Balti tenger térségében gyűrűzött madarak voltak jelen, mostanra viszont a térségben leolvasott gyűrűk alapján azt tudom mondani, hogy a térségben telelő sasok túlnyomó többségben a környékből vagy a környező tájegységekből jönnek a Dévaványai-Ecsegi pusztákra telelni.
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