Austria

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1. Miles Foster Austria30th August 2016 at 3:06 am

   It seems the opening hours of Lainzer Tiergarten have not improved since I worked in Vienna in the mid- to late-1980s. In fact, in those days it was tricky to find out anything about the reserve, even how to get there! However, it was quite easy to see wild boar and some of them were enormous. One of the most memorable wildlife spectacles I have seen was in Austria – sitting at a restaurant beside the Innbrucke in (of course) Innsbruck one summer’s evening. Mayfly were rising and the air was thick with thousands of bats. Generally, I would say that Austria is not great mammal watching country due to intensive farming in the valleys and forestry in the mountains, as well as the natives predilection for shooting and eating everything that moves. But it is still possible to see ibex and chamois and, of course, there is great birding around Neusiedl.

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2. benbalmford Austria31st August 2017 at 9:36 am

   Vienna:
   I tried at ~6.30am (it was open then) for hamster in Zentralfriedhof in the same place as the previous report – ie in the meadows to the left from entering at Tor 2 – but I only saw red squirrels by the time I gave up at ~8am. My girlfriend had contacted the person who runs this facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/feldhamsterinwien/ and she had agreed to take us out to a different location late afternoon (4.30pm) as this is the best time according to her. She’d like the location to be kept quiet but said that she would be more than happy to give people information/show them around if they contact her through the page – I’d highly recommend doing so as we saw them within about two minutes of arriving, and spent time with at least half a dozen individuals including one which decided to nibble my shoe. We looked for bats, but didn’t hear any audible noises, and didn’t have a bat detector so failed to ID any of them, but this location: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/48.2107267,16.4025221//@48.2116286,16.3959127,16z?hl=en-US had at least two morpho-species as well as being close to the micro-nation of Kugel Mugel which is quite fun.

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