Providing opportunities to photograph Cranes are challenging Sakertours’ team every year. 2021 was not an exception, however we were successful again.
We launched a new hide at a roosting site which has the Cranes in a backlight composition with superb colours in the early morning rising sun in the back ground – if not a cloudy or foggy start of the day makes it different. With the new one now we operate two roosting hides for Cranes in the Autumn season.
Getting into the hide in dark we arrive in total silence but with the first rays of light appearing the first Cranes start calling and soon hundreds calling at the same time will totally fill the air around sounding incredible from the close distance behind the camera.
Our special Crane photography day offered a composition of the best available spots starting with a morning in the roosting hide. During the day the photographers were waiting for the special moments in one of our hides near a drinking spot or out in the feeding sites. Usually the day was closed near a bigger roosting site where Cranes flying into one of the shallow lakes were photographed in front of the setting sun – where the sheer experience is something truly unique and surely memorable.
This year special guest were attending at our hides during the day and the most lucky photographers were given the chance to capture Eastern Imperial Eagle – sometimes three of them at the same time in front of the hide.
Not only birds but a few mammals were photographed from our hides. Roe Deers were almost everyday visitors and besides the local herding dogs Red Fox was representing canines for the luckier ones.
For those spending several days with us one day could be spent a bit different for example with trying the Dotterels on some very special spots of the Hortobágy. No Autumn is real for a local birdwatcher without seeing these beautiful waders.
Bird Photography & Birdwatching in the Hortobágy 