After yesterday, today to nature reserves in the west of Texel.
First, to the Westerkolk hide at Waal en Burg reserve.
Black-tailed and bar-tailed godwits.
Lapwing. Curlew.
A snipe.
A greenshank.
Sedge warbler singing.
A lapwing drives away a marsh harrier.
Later, in a meadow, common gulls.
In the De Nederlanden part of the Muy rerserve, a nightingale sings.
A buzzard flies past.
Sounds of whitethroat, willow warbler, and pheasant.
A male hen harrier flies past.
This is a video about hen harriers on Texel.
A male wheatear on a dune.
A cuckoo calls.
A linnet on a bush.
A sedge warbler sings while flying.
A small copper butterfly. A small heath butterfly.
As we walk back, a lesser ringed plover.
Back at the hide: spotted redshank. Many bar-tailed and black-tailed godwits. A common sandpiper.
Waal en Burg, other nature reserves, plans: here.
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