Savi’s warbler, willow warbler, wren and curlews

THis video is about the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve in the Netherlands, on 15 May 2015.

On 20 April 2013, to the Nieuwkoopse Plassen.

From our boat, we hear a greenfinch and a chiffchaff.

Black headed gulls and Mediterranean gulls.

Canada geese on a meadow.

Curlews on a meadow on the other side of the water.

Two northern shoveler ducks flying.

A reed bunting.

A sedge warbler sings. We see far less sedge warblers now than two years ago here. Probably the cold spring has slowed their migration down.

Great cormorants flying.

A gadwall duck swimming.

Many grey lag geese.

Great tits in a tree.

A male chaffinch.

Two common terns flying.

A jay on a tree.

A great crested grebe swimming and diving.

A wren singing on a fence.

A shelduck flying.

Then, a Savi’s warbler singing. We don’t see it; as usually with this well camouflaged species.

A willow warbler.

A white stork flying.

Two buzzards circling in the air.

Marsh marigold flowers on the banks.

A meadow pipit on a tree.

A mute swan couple on, and swimming close to, their nest.

A female and a male marsh harrier.

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