Waterbirds and Winter Visitors Excursion

Join an IVN guide on a walk and set off in search of winter visitors in flight.

At the start of winter, all sorts of birds appear in our country that have spent the summer in the Far North. In October, you can already spot the first ones: robins, for example, which suddenly turn up everywhere in our gardens and start singing their hearts out. As November progresses, many waterbirds join them: geese of all kinds, unusual species of swan and duck-like birds that we do not see in spring and summer. Many of these winter waterbirds head for the waters of Bergen op Zoom . They can be found, for example, on the Zoommeer, the Bergse Diep, the Schelde-Rijnkanaal and de Binnenschelde. During the day, the geese graze on the Molenplaat and the Princesseplaat. And this, in turn, sometimes attracts large birds of prey, such as white-tailed eagles and peregrine falcons.
As well as waterbirds, we also expect to see migratory songbirds, such as thrushes and finches. They search the Molenplaat for berry-bearing shrubs and seed-bearing weeds.