Wren, sanderlings, purple sandpiper

This 2014 Dutch video is about the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve.

After 22 January 2020 in the Schoorlse Duinen came 23 January.

During the night, we had heard a tawny owl call.

As we were on our way, a jay called.

We arrived at De Kerf sand dune valley.

A wren called from a bush.

This video shows a wren singing in March 2014.

On the beach, near the floodline, sanderlings.

On a sandbank, a lesser black-backed gull, herring gulls and black-headed gulls.

A great cormorant flies.

Scores of oystercatchers, on the beach.

On a pier near beach pole #30, a purple sandpiper.

Two carrion crows.

We walk back. This was our last full day in the Schoorlse Duinen.

Tufted ducks, blackbird and woodpecker

This June 2018 4K Cinematic Drone Video is about the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve.

After 21 January 2020 there, we were also in the Schoorlse Duinen on 22 January.

This time, not to the North Sea, but to small lakes in the interior.

A great tit calling.

As we walked, a great spotted woodpecker. And a nuthatch on a mossy tree.

A jay calls.

A blackbird. A blue tit.

This 2011 video is about a lake in the Schoorlse Duinen.

We reach a lake where 11 tufted ducks sometimes sleep, sometimes dive. Coots in this lake dived more often.

On the footpath, a robin.

A kestrel flies past.

In the next lake, two tufted ducks, a coot and a moorhen.

Turnstone, sanderlings, sunset and North Sea

After 20 January 2020 in the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve came 21 January. When we saw this sanderling and this turnstone on a North Sea pier.

In the morning, we had heard a nuthatch. And a great spotted woodpecker pecking wood on a tree.

Late in the afternoon, we went to the North Sea beach. Oystercatchers. Two great cormorants land on the North Sea near the pier.

A lesser black-backed gull flying.

On the pier, the turnstone and the sanderling, already mentioned. The sanderling flew away. The turnstone stayed a bit longer.

Then, no more birds, only waves at the pier.

And the sunset over the North Sea.

And the sunset over the Schoorl sand dunes.

And the silhouette of a Wagyu cow as the sun set.

North Sea, foam and oystercatchers

After 19 January 2019 in the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve came 20 January. At beach pole #29, as this Lensbaby photo shows, a jetty protrudes into the North Sea.

Early in the morning, a chaffinch and a great tit.

A buzzard flies across the path.

On and near beach pole #29, about 15 oystercatchers. A sanderling. A black-headed gull.

Lots of foam on the beach, as this Lensbaby photo shows.

Later, in the rosy sunset light, the oystercatchers are still present.

Birds, lake, cows in Schoorl sand dunes

After 18 January 2020 in the Schoorl sand dunes nature reserve came 19 January. We went to this lake, called ‘Vogelmeer‘ (bird lake). Like all photos in this blog post, this is a Lensbaby photo.

As we started walking, we noted two flowering common daisies, where two days earlier there had been only one.

Great tit, great spotted woodpecker sounds.

Heather and crowberry plants in the Waterbosvlakte heathland.

We arrived at the ‘bird lake’. Unfortunately, not any birds; though there were footprints of birds, probably geese, in the mud of the bank.

Clouds over the lake predicted rain.

As we walked along the east bank of the lake, we met a herd of cows. These cows are there to keep the landscape open. They are Wagyu cows, originally from Japan.

As we walked back, we saw this moss on this tree.

A bit further, this lichen.

Sanderlings and sand dunes

After 17 January 2020 in the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve came 18 January. When we walked towards the North Sea, as this photo shows. It is a Lensbaby photo, like all photos of this blog post.

The morning had started with three great tits and a chaffinch.

As we walked, we passed a birch polypore on a birch tree.

Great spotted woodpecker sound.

Common broom flowers. A bit unusual for January; a sign of a warm winter.

We climb a high sand dune. During the World War II nazi occupation, a German military bunker was on top. Now, it is a viewpoint. Not far from the top, a few flowering common daisies.

A meadow pipit calls.

In the Kerf valley (see also here), many communal winter nests of brown-tail moth caterpillars on plants.

When we reached the sea, there was much foam.

On the beach, at least fifteen sanderlings.

On this photo, on the right near the floodline, some of these birds. Much too small, as the camera was fit for landscape photos, not for depicting small birds like sanderlings.

As this photo shows, there were many dark clouds on 18 January. Sometimes, rain or hail.

As we walk back through the woodland, winter stalkball fungi. A nuthatch calls.

Schoorlse Duinen sand dunes, arrival

This 2017 Dutch video is about the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve.

This area has the highest coastal sand dunes in the Netherlands.

We arrived there on 17 January 2020. During a short walk, I saw a flowering common daisy.

Stay tuned, as there will be more on this blog about this area!