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Hortobagy National Park

This is one of Europe's best birdwatching regions: a vast protected area of grassland (puszta), wetland and marsh. We visited several blinds and platforms, and took a narrow gauge railway into the fish pond area of the park, and saw hundreds upon hundreds of birds: great white egret, purple heron, graylag goose, various grebes and ducks, buzzard, stone chat, tree sparrow, cormorant, white stork, lapwing, collared dove, pied wagtail, rook, and red-footed falcon.
Walking on the wet puszta to a blind near our farm stay.
Walking on the wet puszta to a blind near our farm stay.		 The first blind, too late in the evening to see much.
The first blind, too late in the evening to see much.		 View from the blind.
View from the blind.
Birdwatching platforms such as this dot the park, and are often adorned with useful signage (in Hungarian, English and German).
Birdwatching platforms such as this dot the park, and are often adorned with useful signage (in Hungarian, English and German).		 The platform at the end of the narrow gauge railway.
The platform at the end of the narrow gauge railway.		 Ducks! Herons! Geese! Egrets! Grebes! Terns!
Ducks! Herons! Geese! Egrets! Grebes! Terns!
This is why we have two pairs of good binoculars.
This is why we have two pairs of good binoculars.		 A thatched house near the fish ponds.
A thatched house near the fish ponds.		 At our farm stay, where we decided adopting a kitten would be a bad idea.
At our farm stay, where we decided adopting a kitten would be a bad idea.
Sunset over the puszta.
Sunset over the puszta.		 Blind, dust, buzzard.
Blind, dust, buzzard.		 Debrecen's great church -- this is Protestant Hungary.
Debrecen's great church -- this is Protestant Hungary.

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