Friday, July 17, 2009 - Butterflies in Northern Hungary
Hungary is a major destination for butterfly enthusiasts boasting some 170 species and many sought-after ones among them. Our group on an Ecotours Butterfly holiday visited the Bükk Hills, Aggtelek National Park and the Hortobágy in July.
During 8 days we recorded an amazing 95 species including 18 species of fritillary, 24 blues and 10 skippers. We saw Safflower and Orbed Red-underwing Skipper, Berger's and Eastern Pale Clouded Yellow, Alcon, Large, Iolas, Zephyr and Anomalous Blue, Purple and Lesser Purple Emperor, Common and Hungarian Glider, Pallas's Fritillary and Dusky Meadow Brown among others.
Dragonflies seen included Club-tailed Dragonfly, Small Pincertail and White-tailed Skimmer. Although bird activity was lower than in spring we still saw a nice array of birds including Grey-headed, Black, Middle Spotted and Syrian Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted, Eastern Imperial, White-tailed and Short-toed Eagle, Red-footed and Saker Falcon, Roller, Penduline and Bearded Tit, Lesser Grey Shrike and Golden Oriole to name but a few.
 Sooty Copper
 Hungarian Glider
 Common Glider
 Spotted Fritillary
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