Sometimes something goes wrong during all that fluttering...
I found these wing parts earlier. Unfortunaly I have no idea which birds belong to these wings.
Maybe a goldfinch or some other finch?
The one at the bottom could be a blackbird.
The feather on the right is probably from a tawny owl 🦉
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No idea what was up with the otherwise so shy songbirds yesterday.
Usually I mostly hear them and at most I see a small shadow vanishing into the bushes.
However yesterday they chose to show themselves; long-tailed tits, great tits, blue tits,
robins and even a tiny goldcrest 💛
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When doing my (almost) daily walk at the Amsterdam Forest I always take the
same route.
Firstly because I like the area and secondly because I like getting to know the area and what
grows and lives there.
Take these shaggy inkcaps for instance, I know where they grow and like to see how they are
doing and if new ones are popping up 🍄🍃
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Every autumn my boyfriend and I try to have at least one forestwalk in a different place then
Het Amsterdamse Bos which is more like a very woodsy park.
Het Amsterdamse Bos which is more like a very woodsy park.
We "hunt" for toadstools, eat beechnuts and enjoy the fall colours 🍄🍃🍂🍁
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Last Wednesday something unexpected happened during my walk in the amsterdam forest.
On my way back to my bike I noticed something small scurrying between the fallen leaves.
It was a young hedgehog!
It was almost noon, not the time for a young hedgehog to be up and about since they
are nocturnal animals ✨
At first glance it looked okay. It was pulling at a particular large fallen leaf 🍁
Then I noticed several huge blowflies on the little one and knew this wasn't a good sign.
Also it wasn't scared of me at all, I was even able to touch it.
Only when I picked it up to take it to a shelter it put up its prickly spines for a bit. I rolled it in a
totebag I had with me and asked for a box at pancake restaurant Meerzicht which was closeby.
This very nice gentleman provided me with a box with hay 😊
The hedgehog made itself comfortable and I stepped on my bike with the box under my arm.
It was almost an hour by bike to the shelter.
At the shelter they found it was covered in fleas, ticks, blowfly eggs and freshly hatched
maggots!! The maggots were on the little ones eye making attempts to eat it.
As this was the case I was just in time saving the poor little hedgehog. If I hadn't found it and
taken it to the shelter the maggots would have eaten it alive!!
Next day I checked with the shelter if it had survived the night and luckely it had.
I decided that this event deserved two pages in my forestdiary 💗
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