As you can probably gather, my proposed daily update from the Serbian owl frontier never happened. This was partially down to poor internet but mostly due to being totally knackered by the time we all arrived back at the the hotel in Ecka (pronounced Echka) our base in Northern Serbia near the Hungarian border.
1st winter Caspian Gull
Aside from the owls we also saw a few Caspian Gulls including this confiding bird (above) who posed beautifully displaying its salient identification features including its pink lankey legs, drooped tail-end of its body, largely white head with slooping forehead, pigeon-chest and long, thin-looking black bill.
Collared Doves
I'm already excited about coming back next winter with more people to show them the amazing phenomenon that is the huge numbers of Long-eared Owls that chose to winter in the towns of Northern Serbia.
Trip List
Kikinda and environs, Serbia Nov 30 - Dec 4 2014
Great Cormorant
Pygmy Cormorant
Great Egret
Grey Heron
White Stork
Eurasian Spoonbill
Mute Swan
White-fronted Goose
Greylag
Shelduck
Mallard
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Common Teal
Pochard
Ferruginous Duck
Goosander
Pheasant
Marsh Harrier
Hen Harrier
Common Buzzard
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Common Kestrel
Peregrine
Merlin
Common Coot
Common Crane
Eurasian Curlew
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Caspian Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Long-eared Owl
Little Owl
Common Kingfisher
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Syrian Woodpecker
Meadow Pipit
Robin
Wren
Black Redstart
Blackbird (heard)
Goldcrest
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Marsh Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Penduline Tit (heard)
Nuthatch
Common Treecreeper
Magpie
Jackdaw
Rook
Hooded Crow
Raven (heard)
Common Starling
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
1 comment:
What a fantastic trip. My second visit to Serbia and what a winter spectacle of owls, cranes and geese and well as all the urban birds.
Well worth a visit and hope I can get back again some time.
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