Also with Gabor Vasuta I had some great day exploring some
very remote and incredibly beautiful small
hiden lakes deep in forests around the Tapolca-basin,
Hungary's most scenic area, where I also lived for twenty
years between 1981-2003 (I really feel priviliged to raised-up
at the two most charming part of my country, Zala and Tapolca).
I visited most of these lakes during my childhood times, but
at many places I wasn't there probably for 15 years so far.
Actually the story started on one night, when I - as usually
- was chating with one of my best friend and staff photographer,
Balázs Karman, who share my enthusiasm finding exciting
spots in Google Earth. We were looking for these hidden small
lakes on the satellite, and our excitement was on the peak
when we figured out that some old historical are also available
on the net... military maps from the 1750's, 1850's
and one from just after
WWI. The comparation of the old maps with satellites was
extremely exciting, it was really a travelling in time. I
also passed the info to Gabor, and we immediatelly started
to make a plan to visit these places. Unfortunatelly I had
only two days between tours to join him, but still we visited
several of the places, all being extremely good dragonfly
habitats. Some of them very famous about their Sphagnum
spp., small petbogs and insect-eating flowers, incl.
Drosera spp. We have major expectation to rediscover
Drosera anglica, which is known to extinct from Hungary
in 1955, but since than water-level raised in the area, and
the visit of these remote and never-visited cold lakes can
bring up reliable expectations for sure.
20
July, 2009
A
remote lake in the Keszthely Mts. I.
©
Gabor Vasuta jun.
A
remote lake in the Keszthely Mts. II.
©
Gabor Vasuta jun.
A
remote lake in the Keszthely Mts. III.
©
Gabor Vasuta jun.
During
our walks we encountered with Dysgonia algira, a rare and
very elegant mediterranean Noctuidae species next to Uzsa,
in a "heide"-type habitat, which is very rare in
Hungary.
To
see this tame 7 years old big bull of Stag from some meters
was just remarkable.
Just
like this Black Stork nest with four chicks.
We
have more and more Peregrines breeding in our area, with about
3-4 pairs around the places we visited. ©
Gabor Vasuta jun.
Just
like 1-2 pairs of Saker. ©
Gabor Vasuta jun.
My
friends, Gabor Vasuta and botanist Attila Mesterhazy smiling
happily after a re-discovery of a very rare sedge...
...Isolepis
setacea.
© Gabor Vasuta jun.
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