A Truly Magical Experience

My time in Transylvania was absolutely fantastic. Never before have I been unable to hear the sound of the birds singing over the buzz of the crickets and grasshoppers in the grass. With every step I took, hundreds hopped away from my feet and it made me feel like I was in some sort of fairy tale. On my first day out in the field, within the first five minutes I had seen more butterflies than I had ever seen before in my life. I got to hold my first ever bird, a tree sparrow which we'd caught in the mist nets and I even got to stroke the head of a magnificent Hawfinch. I learned so much from this trip and it has got me hooked on doing fieldwork in wonderful and exotic places. It was a truly magical experience, and one that I will never ever forget.