The bluethroat is a beautiful bird that should not be missed in my opinion. Because it looks straight at us, it gets a graphic look.
The male has a beautiful courtship flight and sits on his singing post in early spring like here.
The female is hiding somewhere on the ground and brooding on eggs in the reeds below.
She looks a bit sallow and like many ground-breeding birds that have a camouflage colour against predators.
The species was initially scarce in the netherlands around 1985.
You had to go to the Oostvaardersplassen to see them, for example.
Especially in mid-April, I would come across them then.
The trend is still increasing. Great anyway.
Nowadays, you just see them in many ditches with some reeds or in the rapeseed.
I feast my eyes every year. I am sitting on a stool waiting for the ideal moment and suddenly there it is.
Like the reed warbler, it sometimes rises and sails down again during its courtship flight.
                                
 
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