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 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: Pics from Naardermeer |
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Went to look for grass snakes yesterday at a place called Naardermeer. Didn't find any unfortunately, although my friend saw one, but it didn't wait around for me to arrive.
I did see some other things
not sharp, but liked the pose
I love these
closeup
see all the nice little sticky drops? 
Did see lots of frogs
And nice flowers
Its a nice place to visit, lots of birds. We saw 3 species of heron, blue, purple and egret. Lots of cormorants, songbirds, geese, ducks etc.
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Excellent pics Ron, looks a great place 
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Sounds a nice place Ron, overall when I drive through Holland I get the impression that there are too many wild spaces (even the trees in the few woods I've seen were all in straight lines  ). Is that right or am I just unlucky in the places I drive through?
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| Scott W wrote: | | Sounds a nice place Ron, overall when I drive through Holland I get the impression that there are too many wild spaces (even the trees in the few woods I've seen were all in straight lines ). Is that right or am I just unlucky in the places I drive through? |
If you mean there are NOT too many wild places, then yes you are right, especially near the main highways. People say sometimes there isn't a square meter in the Netherlands that hasn't been used by man in one way or another
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Jordi J
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Nice photo's Ron! Naardermeer is a really beautiful place and in deed al the nature in the Netherlands is just a big garden.....
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Lovely pics Ron..done well to get the dragonfly they can be hard work to get a shot of.
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| Stuart wrote: | | Lovely pics Ron..done well to get the dragonfly they can be hard work to get a shot of. |
Too true, in this case a four spotted chaser, Libellula quadrimaculata.
That`s the great thing about natrix sites, there is always so much other wildlife around if the snakes aren`t going to oblige. 
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| RonW wrote: | | Scott W wrote: | | Sounds a nice place Ron, overall when I drive through Holland I get the impression that there are too many wild spaces (even the trees in the few woods I've seen were all in straight lines ). Is that right or am I just unlucky in the places I drive through? |
If you mean there are NOT too many wild places, then yes you are right, especially near the main highways. People say sometimes there isn't a square meter in the Netherlands that hasn't been used by man in one way or another |
yep NOT 
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| Stuart wrote: | | Lovely pics Ron..done well to get the dragonfly they can be hard work to get a shot of. |
Thanks Stu, with 300 mm, handheld AND a breeze it could have been a lot worse I really like dragonflies and I'm going to try and make more and better pics of them. There's a park in the Netherlands where they have found a total of 40 species of dragon- and damselflies! I hope to go there later this year.
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Nice pictures Ron!
And yes Scott...Holland hasn't got a lot of wild spaces anymore...If you finnaly come across a nice place, its ussually very crowded or as big as my back yard...
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