Birds and plants on biodiversity day

Biodiversity day!!!

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On 31 May 2014, there was biodiversity day in Cronesteyn park in Leiden, the Netherlands. One symptom of biodiversity there then were these marsh woundwort flowers.

As we started walking along the old woodland, originally belonging to medieval castle Cronesteyn, a blackcap sang.

In a ditch, a gadwall duck couple.

An Egyptian goose on a fence in a meadow. Below it, on the meadow: gray leg geese, domestic geese and Canada geese.

In a schoolchildren’s garden, plastic bottles protected plants from being eaten by pheasants.

A greenfinch singing.

Bishop’s weed flowering.

A chiffchaff on a tree.

In Cronesteyn, there are about forty grey heron nests. Three spoonbill couples nest among them.

After some years of absence due to harsh winters, this year fortunately there is a kingfisher nest again.

Black-tailed godwit, redshank and northern lapwing nest year after year on the meadows.

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