swamp meadow Vlijmens Ven Moerputten Netherlands 102 PM 250327_1064

Spring day. The edge of marsh and naturally meadowland west of City of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. This area is part of the ‘Van Gogh Nationaal Park’.
It includes the areas ‘Moerputten’ and ‘Vlijmense Ven’. The area is also part of the European ‘Natura 2000’ project.

In front the fields and the Moerputten-swamp. To the left is the far highway, the city and a footpath over an old railway embankment.

The old railway track is called “the half sole line” (NL; halvezolenlijntje), because shoes used to be made along this track and because there were 39 stops on a 43 km long track and because all bridges were made for double track lines and only one track had been built. ‘Half a sole’ (halve zool) was someone who was foolish. So the construction of the track was foolish.

Hear you hear the moor-frogs (Rana arvalis) in a ditch at the edge of the marsh (Sounds like gently blowing through a straw into a half-full bottle of water).

Birds: #21:33 #47:21 Common Chiffchaff all the time, #28:30#50:42 Eurasian Wren, #9:24 #9:39 #10:09 European Robin, #3:25 #5:42 #6:57 #7:16 #07:28 #15:26 Eurasian Blackbird, #16:21 #20:12 Greylag Goose, #51:09 Canada Goose #00:27 #40:15 Cetti’s Warbler, #12:33 #20:58 Long-tailed Tit, #5:26 Common Buzzard, #39:09 Common Firecrest.

More today / More in this polder during the year

Date/time: March 17th 2025, 1:02 PM

Weather: 12c, sun with clouds 10%, wind SW-WSW 11-19 km/h, humidity 65%, Dew-point 6c, 1022 hPa, visibility 26 km. Noise floor 34.6 dBA

Location; Moerputten, Gement polder, South of Venkantbrug (bridge), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe. GPS 51.68882 5.23562

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