Another month and another weekend tour!
It was individual tour for very demanding client ;)
This time, once again, we visited
Biebrza National Park.
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| Camuflated hare |
Everything started on friday evening.
After short drive from the city we begun our wildlife search. Despite
the fact that it was after midnight we had our eyes wide open. First
we had some
amphibias – common
toads,
yellow-bellied
toads, and the most beautiful
spadefoot's! These were just
waiting for us in the middle of the road. We moved them gently to the
side to provide them safeness. Later during that part of the trip we
had
marten (probably pine marten) and
racoon dog –
twice, two individuals that were seen from very close. Few more
red
deers, and
roe deers made the trip more interesting.
Unluckily owls were very silent that night :( Anyway quite a good
beginning as for few hours.
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| Massive migration |
After 4 hours of sleep we started next
day! First we had a great breakfast and than we begun our drive down
the valley. It was really good day for wildlife observation! We had
perfect opportunities to see a wide wariety of species –
elks,
roe deers, red deers, and
hares if we think about mammals, and
lots of birds for ex.:
white storks (dozens),
white egrets,
marsh harriers,
white-tailed eagles (few),
ruffs
(thousands),
golden plovers (thousands),
geese
(hundreds of greylags and bean geese),
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| Spring ruff's |
ducks (hundreds of
shovelers, pintails, widgeons, mallards, teals etc.),
swans
(mute and whooper swans),
curlews, dozens of
cranes,
skylarks,
great grey shrikes and many many others. All
of that in a beautiful landscapes of Biebrza National Park. We were
trying to find
bluethorat and
penduline tits, but
unfortunatelly we didn't see any. After a short lunch we started our
way back to hotel.
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| Night badger |
In the evening we had additional walk
just after sunset to a special place, where we had a very close
meeting with a
beaver (but it was quite shy – we heard it
having a meal, and saw it for a moment), and with a beautiful
badger!
Maybe 5 meters distance and very good light so we could see all
details of that cute animal! On our way back we had pair o
f tawny
owls hooting. Quite a good ending of a day.
On the sunday morning we started again
before breakfast. We had a slow drive to a trail with an observing
tower, and back. We wanted to see an
elk from very close. Our
wishes came true, and we had 6-7 elks standing just few meters from
us. One pair was special, as we saw a mother with her quite old
(maybe 10months) scion. Soon (in may) new elks-child will be born.
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| Weed Buting |
After breakfast another chances for
wildlife ! So another drive to places where many things could happen.
Short visit in Narew National Park gave us opportunity to see more
cranes, marsh harriers, white egrets, ruffs, or weed buntings. After
short walk we had to drive back to Warsaw as we wanted to be at the
airport on time.
More photos from that tour available here:
LINK
