This 2010 video from Britain says about itself:
Simon King is in Dorset where he is on the hunt for the UK’s rarest snake, the smooth snake (Coronella austriaca).
In 2007, various rare plants and animals were observed in nature reserves in the Netherlands.
They included:
– Whiskered bats. 11 of them in Fort Spijkerboor
– Yellow centaury: 20 to 30 flowering on Schiermonnikoog island
– Smooth snakes are back in the Bergherbos; four were seen at the same time
– Great reed warblers are back as a breeding species in Eemland
– Great egret: over a hundred birds sleeping in Botshol
– Great crested newt: in nearly all ponds in Op Hees
– Silver washed fritillary: July 3 in Zuid-Kennemerland
– Little crake and little bittern: rare marsh birds, seen in new nature reserve near Harderbroek
– Eurasian treecreeper: 2 couples in the Haagse Bos
– Middle spotted woodpecker: in 2007, 10 to 12 couples were breeding in five areas in Twente
– Inundated clubmoss: in the Damlanderpolder
– Slime mould: a new species for the Netherlands, found on a beech tree in Enzerinck
– Scarce blue-tailed damselfly: seen at Berkenbosje near Haarzuilens
– Water shrew: in Tienhovense Plassen
– Golden samphire: found on the Wadden sea island Griend (in 2006, seen for the first time in the Netherlands, at Kwade Hoek)
– Sea eagle: 2 young birds for over 2 months in Zuid-Kennemerland
– Stripe-winged grasshopper: was seen and heard in the Velhorst
Source: report on 2007 of Dutch conservation organization Natuurmonumenten.
Butterflies in the Netherlands, spring 2008: here.
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