Sheep’s head mushroom, Naardermeer, 16 October 2022
At the bottom of an oak tree near the duck decoy in Naardermeer nature reserve grew this sheep’s head mushroom on 16 October 2022.
Sheep’s head mushroom, Naardermeer, on 16 October 2022
Autumn leaves on it. This is a rare species in the Netherlands.
Male pintail ducks, Naardermeer, 16 October 2022
The 16 October boat trip in the Naardermeer nature reserve landed at the duck decoy. There, these male pintail ducks swam.
Pintails, domestic ducks, mallards, Naardermeer, 16 October 2022
Sometimes, female pintail ducks joined them. Sometimes, mallards and domestic ducks.
Pintail ducks, common pochards, Naardermeer, 16 October 2022
Sometimes, common pochards.
There was also a kingfisher at the duck decoy.
Grey heron, Naardermeer, 16 October 2022
On 16 October, this grey heron flew over the beautiful Naardermeer nature reserve in the Netherlands.
I went along on a boat trip in the Nardermeer then. The trip was organised by the conservation organisation Natuurmonumenten, owners of the Naardermeer.
Naardermeer, trees, 16 October 2022
The Naardermeer is a lake with many marshy areas.
Naardermeer, birch trees, 16 October 2022
We saw this great egret.
Great egret, Naardermeerm 16 October 2022
Other birds that morning: an osprey, goshawk, common snipes. We heard a Cetti’s warbler.
This video from Britain is about the Cetti’s warbler and its call.
Today, a Cetti’s warbler called at the Muggenbult viewpoint in Naardermeer nature reserve.
A blackcap sang.
Barn swallows, house martins, swifts, a white wagtail, a starling and house sparrows near the Naardermeer visitors’ centre.
On the way back from the Naardermeer, an orange-tipped butterfly. And brimstone butterflies.
Grey herons. And three white storks. And three mandarin ducks.
This is a Eurasian bullfinch video from Sweden.
Today, there was a bullfinch couple at the Muggenbult viewpoint in the Naardermeer nature reserve.
And a blackcap singing.
Also at the Muggenbult: sedge warbler. And reed warbler (audible, but hidden in the reedbed). Reed bunting. House sparrows. Common tern. Nesting black-headed gulls. Great cormorants. A mute swan.
Not far from the Muggenbult: northern lapwings in a mating season flight. A buzzard flying. A white wagtail scurrying in the mud.
A swift drank from a ditch while flying near the Naardermeer visitors’ centre. Also near the visitors’ centre: a stonechat.
Barn swallows flying. Dragonflies flying as well.
This 2015 video is about bluethroats in Belarus.
Today, there was a singing bluethroat in the Naardermeer nature reserve in the Netherlands.
Barn swallows, among the first ones of this spring, flying.
A stonechat. Great egrets. Shelducks and northern shoveler ducks at the hide.
And a female lesser spotted woodpecker on a tree.
On 19 August 2019, we went to the Naardermeer nature reserve.
Near the entrance, barn swallows flying. A great crested grebe swimming.
We see construction activity. Wildlife corridors are built underneath the railway; to save lives of grass snakes, moor frogs, otters, pine martens, etc.
On the footpath to the Muggenbult viewpoint, a male black-tailed skimmer dragonfly.
A grey heron.
Along this bit of marsh, a beautiful green and blue dragonfly flies. An emperor dragonfly?
Rowan berries.
On the footpath, a smallish red dragonfly.
A great cormorant flying.
As we arrive at the Muggenbult viewpoint, a coot couple and their chick swimming.
A male gadwall duck.
White and yellow water-lily flowers.
Two adult mute swans swimming with one youngster.
A great crested grebe with two youngsters.
We walk back. On the visitors’ centre buildings, house martin nests, both artificial and built by the birds themselves. To both, parent house martins fly to feed their chicks.
Close to entrance/exit of the nature reserve is a patch with carnivorous plants: sundew.
This photo by Luc Hoogenstein shows a bird ring of the Dutch natural history museum in Leiden, affixed to a great cormorant in 1932.
Recently, that old ring was found in the Naardermeer nature reserve.
The ring was affixed in Lekkerkerk; where then was a big great cormorant nesting colony. Great cormorants then did not nest yet in the Naardermeer. They did so for the first time in 1937, with just three nests. Now they are many more.
This old ring indicates that the Naardermeer colony was started by Lekkerkerk birds.
This 2017 Dutch video is about clean water streaming into the Naardermeer lake.
Dutch Vroege Vogels radio reports on the recent monitoring of fish in the Naardermeer lake. In this nature reserve, the three most common species are bream, roach and northern pike.
This year, a new species was found for the first time: the western tubenose goby; n invasive species originally from eastern Europe..
This 13 June 2018 video is about young barn swallows preening, and being fed by a fast flying parent.
Jos Ketelaar made this video near the Naardermeer nature reserve in the Netherlands.
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