All Dutch to Me.

I have been travelling to Netherlands for work for now more than a dozen years. Most of those trips will have involved a trip to Texel and had opportunity to get some birding done, either before work or after. During that time I have connected a few decent birds both on Texel & the mainland too. Here is a selection of some of my favourites.

A Yellow Wagtail Jumps in the air to catch a fly against a blurred background of red tulips
Certainly one of my best shots I have taken in the Netherlands. I’d tried for a few years to get Yellow Wagtails sitting on top Tulips in a field with a shallow depth of field. I managed several flight shots in the same session
This image is sharper than the fly catching image taken at the same session
Yellow Wagtail over a field of scarlet tulips
The light changed briefly making me change the settings for this shot resulting in the tulips appearing more pink that scarlet.

The best image of a short session on Texel in 2024
Singing Yellow Wagtail sat on a fading tulip at the edge of a field near Oost, Texel.

Yellow on Yellow
Whiskered Tern in the rain at Zoetermeer on the way to catch a flight home

Taken whilst lying on a frozen flooded field during the Beast From The East when the temperature was -22 C
One of my images of the Het Norden windmill, this showing how busy the skies above Texel are

The Texel Lighthouse at the northern end of the island has four beams that rotate. This image shows all four of them.
A White-crowned Black Wheatear. this bird was not accepted due to its lack of toes, suggesting it was an escape. I have photographed wild birds missing toes before though, Smart bird.

An Autumn Northern Wheatear on Texel
A Pied Flycatcher on Texel

I still pinch myself that I have had the four sessions photographing Siberian Rubythroat in Europe, two in the Netherlands and two in Sweden.
A Hovering Red-footed Falcon on Texel near the lighthouse.

A pair of Red-backed Shrikes taken in Fochtelöerveen in May 2024.
Up close and personal with a Nightjar on a nest.

It may be ‘just’ a Meadow Pipit but the light was superb during this session on Texel.
Singing Marsh Warbler going all the way through its catalogue of mimicry.

Marsh Harrier versus Carrion Crow
A male linnet on Texel

Female Dotterel on Texel.
When I first started visiting Netherlands target number 1 was to get some decent images of Bluethroat, it still is each year.
White-spotted Bluethroat on territory.

Black Tern at a colony.
Summer plumaged American Golden Plover.

American Golden Plover at Petten.

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