In this video by a European reptile enthusiast
A small and harmless smooth snake attacks my hand.In 2007, various rare plants and animals were observed in nature reserves in the Netherlands.
They included:
- Whiskered bats. 11 of them in Fort Spijkerboor
- Yellow centaury: 20 to 30 flowering on Schiermonnikoog island
- Smooth snakes are back in the Bergherbos; four were seen at the same time
- Great reed warblers are back as a breeding species in Eemland
- Great egret: over a hundred birds sleeping in Botshol
- Great crested newt: in nearly all ponds in Op Hees
- Silver washed fritillary: July 3 in Zuid-Kennemerland
- Little crake and little bittern: rare marsh birds, seen in new nature reserve near Harderbroek
- Eurasian treecreeper: 2 couples in the Haagse Bos
- Middle spotted woodpecker: in 2007, 10 to 12 couples were breeding in five areas in Twente
- Inundated clubmoss: in the Damlanderpolder
- Slime mould: a new species for the Netherlands, found on a beech tree in Enzerinck
- Scarce blue-tailed damselfly: seen at Berkenbosje near Haarzuilens
- Water shrew: in Tienhovense Plassen
- Golden samphire: found on the Wadden sea island Griend (in 2006, seen for the first time in the Netherlands, at Kwade Hoek)
- Sea eagle: 2 young birds for over 2 months in Zuid-Kennemerland
- Stripe-winged grasshopper: was seen and heard in the Velhorst
Source: report on 2007 of Dutch conservation organization Natuurmonumenten.
Butterflies in the Netherlands, spring 2008: here.
