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| Passing barges on the way to Delft |
Friday, April 22, 2022
The main canal between Schiedam and Delft was busy with barges - bringing loads of sand north to a building site, and empty barges returning south, passing us looking very light and riding high.
The area is green and pastoral, and supports a variety of species of waterfowl. We saw lots of geese, coots, ducks, great crested grebes, cormorants and heron. Many were nesting, or teaching their broods to swim.
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| The barges passed gently by - not even a ripple of a wake |
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| European shag cormorant |
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| Cormorant resting in protected canal bird areas, baffled to prevent problems with nesting |
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| A family of geese |
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| Are they called Canadian geese in Europe? (Answer: yes.) |
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| Pastoral and peaceful |
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| Great Blue Heron - we saw them every day while biking as well |
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| A nesting coot. Baby's little brown head and beak are just below momma's head on the left |
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| Beautiful biking |
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| A Great Crested Grebe - two little feather tufts on the top of its head |
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| Another grebe - very active divers |
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| Great Blue Heron flying overhead |
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