beach in March NL 946 AM 240312_0684

People walking close and chatting on beach (Dutch and German).

‘Verdronken zwarte polder’ ( Darken black polder) Cadzand, the Netherlands. March 2024.

On the beach, children play with a ball and a German man talks a little further away. Numerous Black-headed Gulls make shouts at the loudest.
This is a sound recording on the morning of March 12, 2024 in a beautiful nature reserve called 'Verdronken Zwarte Polder' near Nieuwvliet in Zeeland in the Netherlands. Here the sea flows into the area with every high tide. The salt water penetrates deep into the small area through the channels. Coastal and meadow birds come to look for food on the salt marshes, mudflats, beach plains and dunes.

Early in the year it is teeming with birds. I mainly see Black-headed Gulls and Shore/Rock Pipits??.
In the shipping channel you can hear the huge sea ships and in the distance an ambulance passes over land.

ABOUT THIS AREA

SALT AND DYNAMIC
Before you lies a special area: the sea flows in here with every high tide and that brings life! The salt water penetrates deep into the area through the channels. Coastal and meadow birds come to the salt marshes, mudflats, beach plains and dunes to look for food, rest and breed in the spring. Thanks to the variation in the soil, more than 200 different plant species grow here.

FROM PEAT LANDSCAPE TO POLDER
About 2,600 years ago there was a vast peat landscape behind beach walls, which gradually changed into a salt marsh landscape due to rising sea levels. This created islands. In the 14th century, a deep sea channel was created around the then island of Cadzand: the Black Hole. The Zwarte Polder was constructed in 1623 to reduce the size of the sea channel.

FROM PEAT LANDSCAPE TO POLDER
About 2,000 years ago there was a vast landscape behind beach walls, which gradually changed into a salt marsh landscape in Hienfoor due to rising sea levels. In the 14th century, a deep sea channel was created around the then island of Cadzand, the Zwarte Gat. The Zwarte Polder was constructed in 1623 to reduce the sea channel.

…AND AGAIN IN THE WAVES
During the storm surge of 1802, the dike of the Zwarte Polder broke and the polder disappeared into the sea again. The western part has been diked again: the ‘Herdijkte Zwarte Polder’. The dike remains overflowed and became dunes, and the sea turned it into a dynamic area with salt marshes and mudflats. One of the few small open tidal inlets in an otherwise almost closed coast of the Netherlands and Belgium.

BEACH NATURE
The soil has a wide variation: from sand to clay, and from salty seawater to fresh rainwater. That is why more than 200 different wild plant species grow here. Shorebirds such as ringed plover and oystercatcher breed on the breeding bird beach on the west side in the spring. Birds such as nightingales and warblers breed in the shrubs on the dunes.
Coastal breeding birds breed on the beach on the bare ground.

More here today / More here trough the years

Date/time: March 12 Tuesday 2024, start 9:46 AM

Weather: 9c,clouded, wind SW 10-24 km/h, 1014 hPa, humidity 94%, visibility 10km, dew point 6c.

Location; Verdronken Zwarte Polder, coast North Sea / Westeschelde, Nieuwvliet / Cadzand, Zeeland, Netherlands (Holland), Europe geo 51.38660 3.43607

Gear chain: Sennheiser mkh30/50 MS, in Rycote cyclone small, windjammer; Sound Devices 302;Tascam dr-100 Mk2. Mic pointed E 70 degree. Decoded Mid-side to STEREO

Original MS-track 96/24 available for motivated pro's and artists. 

When you use this sound it would be nice if you spent a voluntarily donation to freesound.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO CREDIT/ATTRIBUTE me (klankbeeld) and freesound.org in your work if you use this sound.
Please do it like this if possible: https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/

This sound may NOT be used in (royalty free) stock material. Don't put my raw sounds/files on youtube or anywhere else. You can use them in creative way as a part of art-form, but not "re-distribute" as (royalty free) stock material. 

Thank you.