On a warm Wednesday I decided to jump in the car and drive to the visitor center in the Oostvaardersplassen. From there, you can start […]
Driving around town
Without any specific reason, I have spent the past few months predominantly birdwatching outside my familiar surroundings. During the Botterdagen festival in Huizen, I decided […]
Black-crowned night heron – Kwak (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Birding was not the reason to come to Amsterdam today. The reason was a lunch with good friends, at a cafe/restaurant on the edge of […]
First real signs of spring 2023
Our patience has been tested quite a bit, but it’s really here now: spring. However, I understood that the moment of flowering in this year […]
Morning hike near Kehlnbach Germany
While staying in Germany for a long weekend, to celebrate the 70th birthday of my father in law, we stayed in an appartement in a […]
Sunset in the Hilversumse Meent
The bluethroat is a bird worth going back for, and that’s what I did tonight. I went back to the Hilversumse Meent to enjoy the […]
Bluethroat – Blauwborst (Luscinia svecica)
During the walk of more than 11 kilometers in the AWD (yesterday’s post) we already saw the bluethroat, but I wasn’t able to take a […]
Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen
For the first time in years I guided a birding tour. In the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen I walked with the family of two of my dear […]
Barn owl – Kerkuil (Tyto alba)
I received an invitation from my neighbor to come to his work because a falconer would come there with some beautiful birds. Although I prefer […]