Sedge warblers and curlews

On 19 May 2013, again to the Nieuwkoopse Plassen nature reserve.

Early in the morning, we arrive in Noorden village, where our boat trip will start.

Starlings. A cuckoo calls.

Collared doves. Greenfinch.

A great crested grebe swimming. Egyptian geese on the bank.

A curlew near a boat landing.

Sedge warblers. Chiffchaffs.

A common tern.

Tufted ducks swimming.

Great cormorants flying.

Black-headed gulls fly to their nesting colony, close to here.

A reed bunting.

Another curlew on the bank.

A marsh warbler singing.

A Savi’s warbler singing.

A blackcap singing.

A song thrush.

A gadwall male swimming.

A black-headed gull on a pole points out which way the boat should go.

A barn swallow.

An Egyptian goose with a gosling.

Another gadwall duck male.

Water lilies just emerging from their underwater wintering. Most leaves still red; no flowers yet.

A coypu swimming. Or was it a muskrat, another, smaller, invasive rodent?

A curlew on an earth hillock.

First, sedge warblers on reed stems.

Then, a sedge warbler on a stump.

A black tern flying.

Two Canada geese swimming.

Stay tuned, as there will be more on this.

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