Budapest Birding (with a guide this time)

At last we got see some target species! Today we hired the services of Bence Kokay who took us to an area south of Budapest. I don't know the exact locations but once of the areas was called Kiskunsag. Bence was a great guide who I would strongly recommend to anyone. We only had a short amount of time as we fly home toady at 17:30 (I'm writing this from the airport).

The birds!

Hen Harrier - Male and Female. Females abundant and 2 male sightings (just metres away).
Marsh Harrier
White-tailed Eagle - Immature and adult birds. Abundant. Appx 3 visible at any one time.
Eastern Imperial Eagle - 2 sightings, both birds perched. Excellent views of contrasting markings.
Caspian Gull (no doubt DMG's bird of the day)
Raven
Great Grey Shrike - 2 sightings
Great White Egret - Abundant
White-fronted Goose - Abundant
Red-breasted Goose - 4 sightings
Dunlin (No doubt LG's bird of the day)
Rough-legged Buzzard - 1 sighting
Great Bustard - c10 sightings

Leighton Moss and Over Wyre

Good weather.  Started off at Leighton Moss looking for Bearded Tit.  They weren't on the grit trays but were flitting either side of the path.  A small flock seemed to be on the move and we saw 4 flying extraordinarily high over head - there was even talk of an 'irruption'.  Later on in the day we heard a Bearded Tit calling from a tree on the hillside overlooking the Morecambe Bay pools - god only knows what the hell they were doing there!  Anyway..at Leighton we saw Curew Sandpiper and 3 Spotted Redshank.  These were the best views of both species to date.  Also we saw 2 Great White Egret at the site overlooking the pools and Stuarts new Swarovski ATX 70x95 really came into play here!  The resident Spotshank was at conder with 3 Snipe and 2 Ruff.  An adult and a FY Mediterranean Gull were over the road from the Conder (what ever that place is).