Today, more snow falls. Much of the river Rhine frozen. Though still open water near where Rembrandt was born.
Coots, mallards, great crested grebes and a male tufted duck swimming there.
This is a tufted duck video from Britain.
The cold weather is not all bad news for Britain’s birds, but some species will struggle to survive when the snow melts: here.
Britain: Large increase in thrushes and buntings in snowy gardens: here.
Dutch butterflies in winter: here.
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Cold weather kills velvet crabs
Environment: The icy temperatures have caused the death of thousands of velvet swimming crabs which have been left littering the shoreline, experts have said.
The Thanet Coast Project said that melting snow has exposed the creatures either dead or dying on the beaches in the Thanet area of Kent.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/85503
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