The morning was leisurely and after good conversation at the breakfast table where we traded stories about our early life in our homes and what we did when young, the time came to get the bags out to the car and say our goodbyes to Garda as we were taking Renate with us to Hoofddorp , her home, and eating one last meal with us as she had fed us the entire time we were there.
There was even time for one last viewing of the birds at a quite isolated wetlands not very far (30 minutes) from her house. We did that first. This was called the "Green Jonker", There was a man there who ives nearby and knew the birds well in Dutch and English so that was to our advantage. He let us see the birds through his scope and pointed out a few we had not seen. A few of those are on the photos here.
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| The wildlife area today |
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| We walked about the first 4 or 5 dots from the parking lot. |
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| A surprise were these European Avocets , which are small and have a shorter beak than the N. American ones. |
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| Two good views of part of the pond, Excellent bird watching. |
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| The Black Gulls and Mediterranean Gulls got excited. |
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| Another view, there were about a dozen birds that we saw and ID'd. |
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| A spotted Red Shank. |
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| An Avocet |
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| A Gray Heron |
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| Renate and Ruth walking out through the sheep "do". Had to pick you steps carefully. |
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| Waiting for the shuttle at the airport. (5:45 PM) So this will be the last blog until Thursday , when I will wrap up with a summary. So don't sign off just yet. See you soon. |
1 comment:
Have a safe trip home dad and will be great to talk to you soon...great blogs as i read and looked at the pics each day on your trip as did Larry....Mike
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