The Ada Huja Promenade is primarilly a winter gulling spot. In this section, the Danube is 1000 metres wide and without a scope you would be wasting time. In comparison to the Dorcol Promenade, number of both species and individuals here is smaller. Yet, this is the place for the flocks of gulls on the water in the morning and afternoon, as well as in flight, especially in late afternoon, returning from the city rubbish dump to their roosts.

Among tens of thousands of Black-headed Gulls and thousands of both Yellow-legged, Caspian and Common Gulls, there usually are a few Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Baltic race Larus fuscus fuscus with jet black mantle). But the real rarities here are the country-wide rare Great Black-backed Gull (regular in last several winters) and the sixth record of Pallas’s Gull for Serbia (in frozen February 2012). Pygmy Cormorants are regular, occasionally a White-tailed Eagle and during cold spells, Goosanders.

Getting there: city buses 25P, 32, 32E, 35, 35L, 74 & 202. Do not hurry in the morning because there is often mist hanging above the water.

When to go: The best birding season is from November to February.

eBird list of the recorded species: http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L2460449

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