Heading Podlasie 03.03.2012 / Day 6

That day we can call "Bialowieza forest standard tour".

Just before breakfast during short walk we had another possibility to see some bison, and it pointed that it might be a really good day.

Soon after breakfast we drove to the town of Bialowieza. During drive we made some stops in search for woodpeckers, but wind was very strong making it nearly impossible to hear anything. The only wildlife met were some red deers passing by the forest.

We begun sighting from the kind of zoo in which some species from that National Park could be met. We had a chance to find out how wolves could mask themselfs just by lying on a dead leaves not so far from the fence making them nearly impossible to find. Later we had also a chance to see them from very close.
Another interesting species was crossing of cow and bison called Zubron. They had really sad eyes, but were quite uniqe anyway. There was also a family of wild boars with one cute piglet that we could observe from very close making us really happy.

Next place we visited was a "Place of Power". Before we reach it, we had to walk through the quite natural forest with many signs of threetoed woodpecker activity. We hadn't got luck to spot it yet, only another greater spotted woodpecker was sitting in the crowns of trees. Place of Power is a small region in the forest with bizzare look. Trees had few trunks there, quite common are pears and hawthorns which are rare in the forest, and on the ground there are some stone circles. People with special abilities could feel there strong wibrations which are making place even more valuable. After short meditation and regeneration of vital energy we moved towards the car and then to Educational Center of Bialowieza National Park.

Exhibition in BNP was nice and our guests in english could learn a little about different forest types and wildlife. We also managed to reach viewing tower, and later to had a short walk in nearby park. We spotted a middle spotted woodpecker and sparrowhawk there, and at the river bank we had a great view on adult beaver from the distance of 30-40meters.

While we were going back to our hostel we made some additonal stops and we heard tawny owl from distance.

Day had ended with some talks at the fireplace.