sand-drifts Loonse en Drunense Duinen Netherlands 1022 am 250617_1140

Summer sand drifts with many Sand Wasps in June. Daytime. 

 
 
Sand wasp

Sand wasp on sand drifts of the Loonse and Drunense Dunes.
There are several birds, but the Sand Wasp in particular stand out. They are hunting for insects, shooting from left to right just over the ground. In the distance, children about 7 years old are exploring nature like young nature rangers. Of course, they are also having fun. The European field cricket sometimes.

The Sand Wasp has remarkably large green eyes. The Sand Wasp lives in colonies but they each have their own nest in the ground. They lay one egg on a captured insect, When the egg hatches, the animal immediately starts devouring the insect. The mother keeps feeding new and larger insects. After seven days, it is fully grown and spins a cocoon only to hatch the next year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bembix_rostrata

Recorded: Loonse en Drunense Duinen, part of Van Gogh Nationaal Park in the south of the Netherlands. 

Birds detected by Merlin Bird ID app (ver. 3.6.1 (220 – 2024);
#2:09 Common Buzzard
#1:20 #1:28 #1:58 #2:21 Short-toed Tree-creeper
#3:26 #3:58 #4:30 European Robin
#0:02 #0:40 #1:13 #2:20Eurasian blue tit
#1:13 #5:54 Great Tit
#4:10 #4:18 #4:36 #4:43 Great spotted Woodpecker
#0:42 #2:22 #2:38 #3:13#3:21 #3:59 #4:13 #4:39 #4:45 Common Chaffinch
#0:20 #0:28 #1:47 #2:00 #2:41 #3:26 #4:54 #5:03 #5:08 Tree pipit
#3:05 Common White-throat
#0:05 #0:10 #0:40 #0:47 #1:19 Common Redstart
#0:49 European Greenfinch
#0:00 Crested Tit

More here today / More heathland recordings in this park

Date/time: June 17 2025,10:22 am

Weather: 22-24°c, sun 800 W/m2 some clouds 25% wind SW-W16-9 km/h, 1026 hPa, humidity 34-43%, visibility 9-24 km, dew point 12°c.

Location; Van Gogh Nationaal Park / Nationaal park Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe. GPS 51.64097 5.12674

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