Birding Donau-Auen Lobau National Park, Vienna
When: September 2018 Weather: Cool 20C
Nikon P900
We took an uber from downtown Vienna to the National Park Visitor Centre (NationalParkHaus Wien-Lobau is what you search for on Uber) and about 30min later were at this large national park to the north east of the city. The centre was not open till 10am(!!) so we wandered in along well kept trails and paths. It was a lovely morning for a walk and but the bird life was somewhat limited…
the visitor centre where drinks are available after your walk in a nice garden
The park is well signposted and navigating it was easy
a fluffy european tree sparrow welcomed us
the road leading into the park
the dragonflies were active
blue tits were the most common bird seen
blue tit
a quick blurry glimpse of ? flycatcher
lovely forest
autumn colours beginning
crows are normally pretty ugly creatures but the Hooded crow here was actually rather smart!
and in the distance we saw this brown bird…
it was a common kestrel…one of my favourite raptors which I had just seen also in San Francisco a few weeks ago…amazing that this beautiful bird has such a wide range
We then heard a loud chirping from a nearby tree and after searching for a while…..
a greater spotted woodpecker was busily pecking
greater spotted woodpecker
- it flew off to a nearby tree
and posed for us
there were nice ponds
water lily ponds
another blue tit bade us farewell
Our ramble took us 3 hours and covered 7km….nice way to spend the morning.
The Natural Traveller 