
The time of peace on earth has arrived, including Christmas cards with the lovely robin. Although, lovely? Read about its true nature in my blog....
Read moreThe time of peace on earth has arrived, including Christmas cards with the lovely robin. Although, lovely? Read about its true nature in my blog....
Read moreYou may not believe it, but you can find damselflies in winter too, even when it’s freezing! The winterdamsels to be precise. In the Netherlands you...
Read moreThe dipper is a rare bird in the Netherlands that forages for food while swimming and walking across the bottom of a fast-flowing stream....
Read moreThe caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly or moth. But there are also larvae that look a lot like a caterpillar, but are not. They belong to sawflie...
Read moreI regularly receive questions from readers about animals that have been seen, usually to help identify the species. For example, I recently got two qu...
Read moreCarnivorous plants are often depicted in a cartoonish way as bloodthirsty stems with a head with dangerous teeth on top. However, reality looks differ...
Read moreThe dragonfly season starts mid-April. With slender damsels to sturdy, heavily built dragons. What is the difference between the two? My latest blog i...
Read moreIn the winter period the chance that you see a butterfly is very small. Probably one will pop up once the warm winter sun shines and the temperature i...
Read moreThis time we shine the spotlight on one of the prettiest (in my opinion) and most graceful (that too is personal) birds of prey of the Netherlands: th...
Read moreThis time a short blog about a beautiful phenomenon that I encountered in February 2018. Strolling through the forest, my eyes fell on something ...
Read moreIn recent weeks I have been out in the evenings regularly. Looking for females. With my wife’s approval, don’t worry. Armed with a decent ...
Read moreThis time a somewhat longer story about a beautiful bird: the Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus). Towards the end of the last century this spe...
Read moreLast week I was strolling along the canal in my hometown, looking for butterflies, wasp spiders, bees and other insects. Countless grasshoppers jumped...
Read moreUpside-down T In my youth, a bird I would often see foraging in the fields when I was cycling to and from school, was the northern wheatear (Oena...
Read moreGreen, brown, but blue? Ask the average Dutchman or woman what colour a frog has and the answer will most likely be “green”. Probably insp...
Read moreI hope my previous blog brought you a clear picture (how appropriate :-)) about how one bird can estimate distances very well while other birds hardly...
Read moreIn my previous blog I wrote about the woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) and why this bird sometimes literally crash into buildings. Some readers wondered...
Read moreSpring is in the air, nature is ready for it. Great tits (Parus major) are doing their utmost and are singing like squeaky bicycle pumps and the ...
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