Surprises in the woods

in #birding8 years ago

As I am trying to organise my photo albuns, found these photos from a tryp to Hungary 2 years ago. I was supposed to stay in Budapest only, but altough being a beautiful city... nature is more my thing, so ended up staying a couple of days in Tihany, a small town near lake Balaton, that has a great number of awesome hiking trails nearby.
And to top a great day walking among nature... a new species was spotted! This bird doesn't exist where I live, and altough the photos are far from great, I consider myself really lucky to have seen in, let alone photograph it.

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As I heard the noise and saw this cute head popping, tried to get closer... and was lucky enough to succeed!

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Black woodpecker / Pica Pau Preto (PT) - Dryocopus martius

These woodpeckers are pretty big, reaching almost 50 cm. And this one is a male; altough it's hard to see in the pictures, there is red on the entire crown (name given to the top of the head); the females only have red on the posterior part of it.
He stayed for a few more moments, then he flew away; but stayed long enough to make the day even better. Happiness is in the small things ;)

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Photos taken with Canon SX50 HS

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AMAZIIING! You are lucky indeed!
The first photo tho... I think you spotted him but he spotted you too. lucky,lucky

He did heard something for sure... but was kind enough not to fly away immediatly! :)

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