Hello all,
I have posted this in the "information wanted" forum but have had no replies yet, maybe I'll have better luck here?
We are planning a trip to Lake Neusiedl for the Easter break (April 21), which is longer than usual this year as it is just before the Italian national holiday of April 25, so we'll have over a week, roughly from the 18th to the 28th. Considering that it will take us a full day to drive there, and one to drive back, we'll have about a week and we may or may not decide to stop over in the Italian Dolomites.
We have a few targets, apart from the obvious Bustards, which I gather shouldn't be too difficult.
- White-tailed Eagle, always nice to see
- Long-legged Buzzard - is it a possibility?
- Lesser/Greater Spotted Eagles as above?
- Saker?
- the 3 crakes: Spotted, Little and Baillon's (?)
- Jack Snipe?
- the 3 Marsh Terns (whiskered, Black, white-winged)
- SE Owl?
- Syrian Woodpecker (plus the others)
- Bluethroat
- Warblers (gropper, river, Savi's, Barred, Lesser Whitethroat)
Lastly: Are there any sites for Common Rosefinch which can be reached as a day trip from Lake Neusiedl? Or is it too early as someone suggested in the other forum anyway?
I have just realised I had posted the same RFI a few years ago, but we ended up going somewhere else and it was nearly a month earlier, so I the range of species should be very different.
I have posted this in the "information wanted" forum but have had no replies yet, maybe I'll have better luck here?
We are planning a trip to Lake Neusiedl for the Easter break (April 21), which is longer than usual this year as it is just before the Italian national holiday of April 25, so we'll have over a week, roughly from the 18th to the 28th. Considering that it will take us a full day to drive there, and one to drive back, we'll have about a week and we may or may not decide to stop over in the Italian Dolomites.
We have a few targets, apart from the obvious Bustards, which I gather shouldn't be too difficult.
- White-tailed Eagle, always nice to see
- Long-legged Buzzard - is it a possibility?
- Lesser/Greater Spotted Eagles as above?
- Saker?
- the 3 crakes: Spotted, Little and Baillon's (?)
- Jack Snipe?
- the 3 Marsh Terns (whiskered, Black, white-winged)
- SE Owl?
- Syrian Woodpecker (plus the others)
- Bluethroat
- Warblers (gropper, river, Savi's, Barred, Lesser Whitethroat)
Lastly: Are there any sites for Common Rosefinch which can be reached as a day trip from Lake Neusiedl? Or is it too early as someone suggested in the other forum anyway?
I have just realised I had posted the same RFI a few years ago, but we ended up going somewhere else and it was nearly a month earlier, so I the range of species should be very different.