Goosanders, mandarin duck and robin


Today, to the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen nature reserve.

As we stopped to pick someone up, three ring-necked parakeets calling, flying overhead.

Immediately after the reserve entrance, three fallow deer. They are not shy, as there is no hunting here.

In the Oranjekom pond: male and female tufted ducks. Also gadwall ducks. A little grebe. A grey heron lands.

Nuthatch and great spotted woodpecker sound.

Female and male goosanders cleaning their feathers, 18 November 2012

In the next pond, from the hide, four female and one male goosanders.

Three female and one male goosanders, 18 November 2012

Four female goosanders, 18 November 2012

A bit further away on that pond, a male mandarin duck.

Mandarin duck, 18 November 2012

A great tit in a tree on the bank.

Mallard ducks. Male and female teal.

A coot. Two moorhens.

Now, a blue tit and a robin in the tree on the bank.

A bit later, a juvenile great cormorant flies over a canal.

A chaffinch in a tree. A buzzard in another tree.

Robin singing, 18 December 2012

A singing robin on a shrub.

Robin, 18 December 2012

Further, as we walk back, a marsh tit in a low tree.

A Canada goose grazes near a canal.

Finally, just before the exit, coral spot fungi growing on a fallen branch.

37 thoughts on “Goosanders, mandarin duck and robin

  1. Hi Kitty, what a lovely place, a wonderful diversity of birds all gathered together and a Buzzard too! It must have been a joy to walk around here.and you have taken some beautiful photo’s. Thank you for showing us these. Yours SN

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