North France and The Netherlands 16 th -19 th November 2016

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1 North France and The Netherlands 16 th -19 th November 2016 Introduction This report covers a 4 day, part-birding and part-holiday trip to the Netherlands, passing through northern France and Belgium on the way. With 3 full days available, approximately half the time was spent birding, and the other half taking in various cities and sites. The idea came about after reading Josh Jones report from March 2015, and with my girlfriend never having visited France or Belgium a plan was hatched to get away for a few days. My initial target species were the possible lifers, primarily category C Dutch and French species (Black Swan, Bar-headed Goose, Reeve s Pheasant and Alexandrine Parakeet) as well as Lesser White-fronted Goose. In the days leading up to the trip it emerged a wintering Bufflehead had returned to its favoured site for a 13 th year running and, accepted as wild by the Dutch, it became an addition to the target list. Waarneming.nl was essential to finding most species most of the wildfowl don t have regular sites, so previous locations can be useless, as it proved for me. The weather was largely overcast, with some showers, including appalling ones on the second and last evening. The days were short sunlight only from about 08:15-16:30, and given the time of year I was very pleased to not only secure all of my targets, but also bag a couple of vagrant birds and hit the 100 species mark. For a more in depth review of each day, including photos and detailed species location, please visit my blog godalmingareabirds.blogspot.com. Accommodation and transport The trip was done by car. Petrol costs are much cheaper on the continent, and a Wednesday evening outbound journey on the Eurotunnel from Folkestone to Calais, with a late Saturday night return, was less than 100. All the birding sites were easily accessible by car. The roads in the Netherlands in particular are very good, and in the countryside access is easy. The trip was very much a budget one, and thus we used Air BnB for our Thursday and Friday night accommodation (in Antwerp and Dordrecht respectively) which was typically wonderful both cost effective and homely. This also allowed us to cook. Indeed, we brought all our food for the trip with us from England. For the Wednesday night we used Booking.com, which found Le Trianon hotel in Hesdin. It was basic, but for 40 very much did the job. Literature I used no books for the trip, but I cannot stress the usefulness and help (in some cases essential) Waarneming.nl was for finding some of my targets. This database is used by many Dutch birders to record birds, from common species to rarities, and each sighting comes with a GPS reference. Thus, a quick search and punching of a GPS into the sat-nav can take you to a bird with ease. Itinerary

2 Wednesday 16 th November 17:50 Eurotunnel departure from Folkestone, arrive in Calais 19:15. Drive to Hesdin, arrive c.20:30. Thursday 17 th November c.08:00 start in Foret d Hesdin, France. C.09:30 drive to Brugge, Belgium for the day. Depart in the afternoon, arrive in Antwerp, Belgium for the evening. Friday 19 th November Depart Antwerp c.07:00, arrive at Oudeland van Strijen, Netherlands c.08:15. Bird here, and several other sites in Zuid-Holland until sundown, stay in Dordrecht. Highlights Lesser White-fronted Goose, Bufflehead, American Wigeon, Red-breasted Goose, Black Swan, Barheaded Goose, Reeve s Pheasant & Alexandrine Parakeet. Species List 1) Mute Swan 2) Black Swan 3) Bean Goose 4) White-fronted Goose 5) Lesser White-fronted Goose 6) Greylag Goose 7) Canada Goose 8) Barnacle Goose 9) Brent Goose 10) Red-breasted Goose 11) Bar-headed Goose 12) Egyptian Goose 13) Shelduck 14) American Wigeon 15) Wigeon 16) Mallard 17) Pintail 18) Shoveler 19) Teal 20) Pochard 21) Tufted Duck 22) Goldeneye 23) Bufflehead 24) Pheasant 25) Reeve s Pheasant 26) Red-legged Partridge 27) Cormorant 28) Grey Heron 29) Great White Egret 30) Greater Flamingo 31) White Stork

3 32) Great Crested Grebe 33) Little Grebe 34) Hen Harrier 35) Marsh Harrier 36) Buzzard 37) Sparrowhawk 38) Kestrel 39) Merlin 40) Coot 41) Moorhen 42) Avocet 43) Golden Plover 44) Lapwing 45) Curlew 46) Black-tailed Godwit 47) Dunlin 48) Snipe 49) Herring Gull 50) Black-headed Gull 51) Common Gull 52) Lesser Black-backed Gull 53) Great Black-backed Gull 54) Mediterranean Gull 55) Yellow-legged Gull 56) Feral Pigeon 57) Stock Dove 58) Woodpigeon 59) Collared Dove 60) Ring-necked Parakeet 61) Alexandrine Parakeet 62) Kingfisher 63) Green Woodpecker 64) Great Spotted Woodpecker 65) Magpie 66) Jay 67) Carrion Crow 68) Jackdaw 69) Rook 70) Goldcrest 71) Blue Tit 72) Great Tit 73) Marsh Tit 74) Crested Tit 75) Coal Tit 76) Long-tailed Tit 77) Skylark 78) Cetti s Warbler 79) Nuthatch

4 80) Treecreeper 81) Wren 82) Starling 83) Redwing 84) Song Thrush 85) Fieldfare 86) Blackbird 87) Robin 88) Dunnock 89) House Sparrow 90) Pied Wagtail 91) Grey Wagtail 92) Meadow Pipit 93) Water Pipit 94) Chaffinch 95) Brambling 96) Greenfinch 97) Goldfinch 98) Siskin 99) Hawfinch 100) Bullfinch Targets Black Swan A category C bird that was much harder to pin down than I thought. After searching Waarneming before my trip, it seemed a family party was present in the Nationaal Park De Biesboch, south of Dordrecht, with a couple of reports in the week before I arrived. However, an extensive drive through this beautiful network of floods and river marsh on the 18 th failed to locate any. Without a backup plan, and failing to locate any whilst birding elsewhere, I was very fortunate to learn of a bird reported back in the Nationaal Park De Biesboch on the morning of the last day. We arrived there mid-afternoon, with the Waarneming GPS reference of , taking us to the exact flood where 1 adult was feeding with 62 Mute Swans. Lesser White-fronted Goose the main target of the trip, Lesser White-fronts took some hard graft in the field before pinning down. A couple of hours of thorough searching, from dawn at Oudeland Van Strijen on the 18 th, failed to pick any out. However, upon returning mid-afternoon, I was eventually able to find 5 at roughly , 4.522, on the west side of the Vlaamseweg track. A scope is absolutely essential for this site the uneven polder land is deceptive, and birds can vanish. Furthermore, there are 10 s of 1000 s of Geese here, so careful scanning is required to make sure you have Lesser s. Also, bring layers it s exposed, and any wind leaves you bitterly cold! Bar-headed Goose Similarly to Black Swan, I had few sites, and failed with my first couple of attempts. Josh Jones listed the River Lek at Culemborg as good for them, but I had none there, and also failed on a recently reported individual south of Strijen. However, Waarneming came good again, with a report of 12 in Kade, Zevenhoven coming in late on the 18 th. Thankfully this was en route to Amsterdam, so we were able to stop off on the way there on the 19th. We pulled up at the GPS reference , and 8 birds were feeding with 2 Mute Swans at a farm. Later in the day, we had 3 at Mijdrecht from the car.

5 Bufflehead the returning drake, back for its 13 th winter on Gaatkens Plas, Koedood, in Barendrecht, was the easiest bird. Reported daily, it took less than 5 minutes to pick him out on the southern side of the lake on the 18 th, where he regularly dived and displayed to female Tufted Ducks. Reeve s Pheasant after a bit of a wait, eventually no less than 14 of these spectacular Pheasants were seen in Foret d Hesdin, northern France, in the early morning of the 17 th. The track on the west side of the forest is the best access point, and after parking by the gate and walking along it, before deviating into the woods, we had no Pheasant species at all. However, further up, about half-way between the gate and the crossroads, I had my first female next to the track. A little further on in a young plantation 4 female-types and 2 males, all very wary, were seen, before 2 more (a male and female) were seen on the track. At the crossroads, 5 males showed very well, down to a few feet from the car. Alexandrine Parakeet this species is present in at least 3 parks in Amsterdam. I eventually pinned down about 5 in Vondelpark on the 19 th, after no joy in Oosterpark before. Many Ring-necked Parakeets are present, but the Alexandrine s differing call, size and pink wing patch make them easy to pick out. Dips None, though Black Swan had me worried! Bonus birds Red-breasted Goose - with up to 3 reported in the vast Oudeland van Strijen flocks this winter, I was determined to see one, and got lucky when a bird was reported on Waarneming at around midday on the 18 th. It still took some finding, and after only a few minutes view in the scope it disappeared into a dyke and was not seen again. It wasn t far from the Lesser White-fronts. American Wigeon very much the bonus bird of the trip, a drake was reported at Snel en Polanen, near Utrecht, on the 19 th. Remarkably, when news came through we were heading back from Amsterdam and just 19 minutes from the site, so decided to stop by. I was rewarded with crippling views, with the bird sleeping a couple of hundred feet from the sure. Summary For anyone who considers themselves a Western Palearctic lister, the Netherlands (and Foret d Hesdin) are necessary for certain category C species, and the ease of access in the country, combined with the wonderful Waarneming website, makes finding the birds relatively easy and enjoyable. To counter this listing style, the Netherlands also offers captivating landscapes and habitats, on which proper birding can take place. Birds like Hen Harriers, Great White Egrets, and 10 s of 1000 s of wildfowl (no less than 10 Geese species all trip) are seemingly everywhere. My trip in particular was a 100% birding success, and done on a very small budget too. Despite seeing all my Dutch targets, I would certainly visit the country again for a session in Oudeland van Strijen, itself alone worthy of enticing a British birder over.

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