We arrived here in the Netherlands at the end of August 2008 after a winter in New Zealand sorting out our lives in preparation for a new life in the Netherlands and of course heading directly for winter there in the Netherlands. It was a beautiful winter, there was some snow and there was ice [...]
Here in the Netherlands we have seen many more birds than we could have imagined. One very shy bird is the Jay and we have enjoyed watching this lovely bird coming and feeding here, ever so shy and nervous as always.
This is for Tomas, and anyone else who hasn’t actually seen snow falling anywhere. The view is from our lounge window. The odd bicycle going by – everything becoming slowly and surely white. It has been a beautiful, crisp, white white winter, wonderful for us from Auckland, New Zealand. It has not been so wonderful [...]
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It is cold and miserable if you are a bird here in Haarlem right now, except if you are a smallish bird within 500 metres of this house. The bird restaurant is very busy every day – yesterday saw visits from the blue & great tits, a tree creeper, a robin, 1 jay, black birds, [...]
This is the News from the Netherlands We are fascinated with all the different varieties of birds that we have seen in the Netherlands. But the best two bird experiences have been the Swans on the Spaarne. I have already told the story of the swan that I met one freezing cold day by the [...]
This is the News from the Netherlands Around Christmas time when Granddad and I were looking for a house to live in I walked to look at a place on a road near the Spaarne River. On the day I walked there it was very foggy and damp and I could see something white [...]
This is the News from the Netherlands Grandad and I have been on a bus tour which included a stop at a wooden shoe factory. The tour group included people from many countries so the tour guide told us about the sights we passed along the way in a number of lanuguages. He spoke in [...]
This is the News from the Netherlands Granddad and I caught a bus, a train and then walked quite a long way to the canal at Zaandam. We saw this fireboat on the canal where we had been watching the locks on the canal being opened for the yachts, barges and other boats to move [...]
