This is a video about a northern pike.
Jos van Zijl made it near Zutphen in the Netherlands.
This video is about a red fox meeting a cat at a window.
The video is by Mark vd Heide in the Netherlands.
This video from the USA says about itself:
A moose in the suburb of Redmond, WA enjoys a swim in a family swimming pool.
North American moose are called elks in Europe.
Translated from NOS TV in the Netherlands:
Keeping elks prohibited
Added: Wednesday 19 May 2013, 08:19
Update: Wednesday 19 May 2013, 08:24Starting next year, it is forbidden to keep, breed or trade elks, raccoons, wallaroos and many other mammals. Minister Dijksma is putting them on a banned list.
She stressed that not every animal is suitable for keeping. Some animals can be dangerous for humans and can transmit diseases.
Besides animals which will still be legal as pets, such as dogs and cats, there is also a third category. Ferrets and desert hamsters, for example, may still be kept, but only under strict conditions.
Specialist knowledge
These terms shall be prepared by the Council for Animal Affairs. For example, owners should have specialist knowledge and ample living space.
The categories are established based on research by the University of Wageningen. There will be a transitional arrangement for people who now have a mammal that next year will no longer be allowed.
In this video, a mute swan again and again has to drive away a persistent Canada goose.
The video is by Catamaran from the Netherlands.
A Canada goose may drive away a gorilla; but, sometimes, it meets its match in a black-tailed godwit.
This video is called Turkey police BRUTALITY: Cops ATTACK protesters directly, use gallons of TEAR GAS.
The Dutch Foreign Secretary, Timmermans, will tomorrow visit Turkey.
The opposition parties in the Dutch parliament say that Timmermans then should express concerns in the Netherlands about police violence against Turkish pro-democracy demonstrators to the Turkish government.
They moved this in parliament. However, that proposal was rejected, with 70 opposition votes for it, and 78 votes of the government coalition parties VVD and PvdA against it.
Tomorrow, Timmermans will go to the Turkish-Syrian border, to meet Dutch NATO soldiers there. The Dutch government parties don’t want concerns about human rights in Turkey to interfere with Dutch-Turkish-NATO warmongering in the Syrian-Turkish border region.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Tories blasted for lame response on violence in Turkey
Tuesday 18 June 2013
by Roger Bagley
Labour MPs condemned a Foreign Office minister’s feeble gyrations today over Turkey’s vicious attacks on protesters.
Democracy campaigner John Healey MP accused Minister David Lidington of dishing out “subdued” words to Parliament when he should have expressed “shock.”
Mr Healey complained that Turkish authorities had arrested people for using Twitter, blocked trade union demos with huge police numbers and threatened to use the army against their own citizens.
The minister replied that it was important that human rights were respected. He suggested that some images from Istanbul and Ankara were “disturbing.”
He added lamely: “As friends of Turkey, we hope to see those problems resolved peacefully.”
Mr Lidington also told MPs that “Turkey remains an important foreign policy partner and Nato ally, and we support its continuing reform agenda.”
He argued that Turkey had carried out substantial judicial and democratic reforms over the last 20 years, and it was a very different country compared with previous military rule.
Labour shadow foreign office minister Emma Reynolds complained that “many will be concerned about the generality of the minister’s answers.”
Green MP Caroline Lucas protested at the holding incommunicado of more than 100 civilians arrested at the weekend, including nurses and doctors, amid reports of beatings.
She demanded a public statement from the British government condemning such detentions, and expressing “outrage” at recent events.
From Associated Press:
Last Updated: 13/06/17 6:07 PM ET
Hotel owners who sheltered Turkish protesters ‘cooperated with terror,’ Erdogan says
ISTANBUL — Riot police in Istanbul fired water cannon and tear gas Monday to disperse pockets of protesters on the sidelines of a demonstration called by labour groups who hope to capitalize on weeks of initially small-scale activism to register broader discontent.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said even the owners of luxury hotels near Taksim Square who had provided refuge to protesters fleeing the chaos of the police raid were linked to terrorism.
At least 400 people were arrested Sunday, according to the Istanbul Bar Association, with local news reports saying some journalists had been among them.
One foreign photographer documenting the clashes Saturday night said a police officer had torn his gas mask off him while in a cloud of tear gas, and forced him to clear his memory card of photographs.
Some doctors and nurses who treated protesters were also detained by security forces, according to the legal offices of the Istanbul Chamber of Doctors. Lawyers have been held by the authorities in recent days.
On governmental tear gas: While it’s not too pleasant for people to be in a cloud of the noxious fumes, the effect on animals is much worse, and Turkish animal rights activists say that the results on Istanbul’s cat, dog, and bird population was devastating: here.
This Dutch video is about the Boschplaat nature reserve.
Translated from the blog of warden Gert Jan Blankena of Boschplaat nature reserve on Terschelling island in the Netherlands. About the Koffiebonenplaat sandbank near Terschelling, 18 May 2013:
We counted about 290 Eiders, 450 Oystercatchers, 400 Dunlins, 120 Brent Geese, 36 Bar-tailed Godwits, 46 Sandwich terns, 2 Avocets, 10 Whimbrels and a seal. There was much more to see, like Sandwich terns, Arctic Terns, Common Terns and Little Terns. But because of the distance they were impossible to count.
This video is about young great crested grebes, traveling along on a parent’s back, and being fed by the other parent.
The video is by A. Schols from the Netherlands.
Today, according to NOS TV in the Netherlands, a thousand people in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, demonstrated against governmental violence in Turkey against mass demonstrations.
The demonstrators went from the Rokin to the Muntplein square to the Vondelpark.
According to the organizers, Greeks and Iranians living in the Netherlands participate in the demonstration.
Turkish police used water cannon with biting chemicals mixed into the water against the people.
Explicit evidence of Turkish state violence — in pictures: here.
Turkish police fired tear gas today at demonstrators attempting to return to Istanbul’s Taksim Square after Saturday’s brutal clampdown: here.
Turkish trade unionists went on strike today in protest at a brutal police crackdown on anti-government protesters: here.
London Turks show solidarity with Gezi: here.
History of mass movements: here.
To all people reading this blog especially for the series on the birds and other wildlife of the Arctic Svalbard archipelago: don’t despair. It will continue as soon as many photos will be sorted out!
Meanwhile, about another island, smaller than Spitsbergen, and not as cold: Tiengemeten in the Netherlands.
This video is about Tiengemeten island.
Saturday 16 June 2013.
Near the ferry to the island, a great crested grebe swims.
Swifts fly overhead.
On the bank of Tiengemeten, three little egrets clean their feathers.
A whitethroat sings.
On the ferry, it had rained, like last time I was on the island. However, the rest of the day, the weather is sunny, with much wind.
Barn swallows nest in the visitors’ centre.
Great tit sounds.
In a reed bed, a reed warbler song.
Tufted ducks. And common pochards.
Avocets on a bank.
A great cormorant, and barnacle geese flying.
Redshanks.
The first butterfly of today: a common blue.
A skylark sings.
A northern lapwing.
Our second butterfly: a small heath.
A common tern flying.
On an islet in the lake, a small avocet chick walking.
A reed bunting sings.
Shelducks swim.
A marsh harrier.
Then, our third butterfly … really, a moth: a cinnabar moth.
Then, something special. A bittern, flying against the wind, so: slowly, to the left.
Garden tiger moth caterpillars cross the footpath.
A spoonbill flying.
A big group of gadwall ducks resting.
Grey lag geese.
Near the hide, a kestrel standing almost still in the air, despite the wind.
Four barnacle geese couples swimming together, with two goslings per couple each.
Two black-tailed godwits flying and calling.
Egyptian geese standing on a sandbank.
A flock of over a hundred starlings.
This is a time-lapse video of Mesembryanthemum flowers unfolding.
And here is the sequel.
The videos are by Bram Reinders in the Netherlands.
Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants native to southern Africa.
