For bird-friendly city dwellers

Voice of nightingale from the site of the HONCA

The Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association this year also announces its program “Night of Nightingales”, successfully organized since years, where you can observe on several occasion with expert guide the bird which is considered of the most beautiful voice in Hungary.

In Budapest the next occasion to participate at bird ringing will be on May 5 from 4 p.m. on, and the nightingale observation tours will start from six to nine p.m. Meeting on the Óbudai Island, in the parking lot behind the “K” bridge.

on the site of the HONCA you can also browse between tours organized in other cities.

a picture for today

A városi tanya

unfounded hopes

in some cases even with the greatest caution it is impossible to protect them until they grow up. while others resist every storm, defy all probability and statistics, and survive. there is no real answer as to what when why.

Cella Trichora, Óbuda

Margit street

When walking along the Margit street up from the former bookshop of the Balassi publisher, I have been often watching these two little houses trapped between the larger ones, with the old, slowly falling gate between them, as they are being chewed to the stump by the time. I have not known for a long time that a very long belt land is running up the hill behind them, as far as Gül Baba’s Türbe. Since last summer I also know that something very exciting is in preparation here. Exactly what, will soon turn out, as Margit street nine has been in a complete bustle in the last weeks. The events can be also followed on facebook, and in the near future I would like to report on them.




The photos are from the community’s fb site; those with a name are taken by Tamás Bujnovszky.

a quick note

A glass-house garden made from recycled materials in the inner courtyard of the former Corvin Department Store, organized by KÉK (Center for Contemporary Architecture) (the garden on the video from 03:20)
The site and facebook page of Müszi, the group creating the project

1st of April

the spring works quickly, when the wind is blowing, it is blowing fresh foliage, not just bare branches any more these days we had no time to do anything. gardening will be next time the week after Easter, and then a lot of work at once. this afternoon I have pruned some bushes and made a quick photo of most of our plants of the last year

from the ordinary cornels this is the strongest one, but not really symmetrical


the smoke-bush is waking up


just like the red-leaved one (unfortunately my phone does not know where to focus, sorry)


all buckthorns we have planted have beautifully put roots


the kousa dogwood was apparently pruned well, it has lots of such triple branches, I am expecting so much what it will become