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Rural area in early spring with natural small water / river named Zandleij in village Cromvoirt in the Netherlands. Here are small farms around.

The Common Chaffinch is singing (to close) all the time this spring.
#0:22 Cows in the farmers stable call to go out.
#0:35 The church-bell from the village Roman Catholic church tells it is 12 PM noon.
#1:09 The farmers tractor is there. There is a lot of work to be done. On his farm he has Greylag Goose. The high altitude planes some moments are for free.
#7:16 #9:59 #12:32 #22:53 The fencing around the pasture is inspected by two men. They slowly come my way and discuss how to handle things.
#11:15 #18:27 As it slowly warms up, the frog is also cautiously making itself heard.
#22:59 The little Eurasian Wren is very busy calling to the great danger, my microphone. Would he think it's a cat. But when it doesn't respond the bird just leaves again.
#24:58 A direct hit from the bottom of a bird on my microphone. (-;
#27:57 The laughing call of the Eurasian Green Woodpecker.
#30:35 church bell 1x
#31:43 The dance of the bumblebee
#34:06 #42:07 #51:19 no close Chaffinch for a minute The geese enjoy.
#54:33 Helicopter Robinson R44 Raven 2 overhead.

About the stream Zandleij where I am

The Zandleij is a watercourse in the Dutch province of North Brabant.

It starts north of Tilburg. From here the river flowed in a northeasterly direction, through the wet and low-lying nature reserve De Brand north of Udenhout, and then past Zwijnsbergen Castle near Helvoirt. The current then bends in a northerly direction and cuts through the cover sand ridge. At Cromvoirt the Zandleij ends in the 's-Hertogenbosch-Drongelen drainage canal.

The Zand-leij stream has never been completely natural, the name of which is 'leij', which means 'to guide'.

It is assumed that the Zandleij was dug between the 14th and 18th centuries. In the 1960s there were capacity problems and a new bed was dug. The original bed is now called Zandkantse Leij.

The canal collects seepage water and thus contributes to the desiccation of the De Brand nature reserve, while during excessive rainfall this area is flooded with polluted water from elsewhere.

About the village of Cromvoirt

The name Cromvoirt consists of the parts crom and voirt. This combination of words means; wet land that can be walked through.

The settlement of Cromvoirt must have originated around 1100 at the transition between higher sandy soils and the low-lying river valley of the Meuse.
The low-lying village of Cromvoirt is located between two higher parts: the Vughterheide in the east and the De Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park in the west.

More today / More through the years in this field

Date/time: March 18 2024, 12:02 PM

Weather: 14c, 90% sun, wind W-NW 2-28 km/h, 1016 hPa, humidity 67-77 %, UV index 1-3, sun intensity 645 W/m2 visibility 18-28 km, dew point 8c

Location; farmland between st Lambertusstraat 70 and Eikendonk and close to small stream Zandleij, Cromvoirt Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe. GPS 51.65651 5.22905

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