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Small and pretty things
Oct. 17th, 2025, East of Belgium. Autumn is there. In the leave-dropping trees, flocks of small birds are more active than ever. They appear dark against the sky at first, until you catch them with your cameralens: the yellowish fitis … Continue reading
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Butterflies
Aug. 8-11th, 2025, East-Belgium. Summertime! A great diversity of butterflies abounds near the small riverbeds crossing the high plateau (here: lemon butterfly, silver-washed fritillary, swallowtail and map butterfly).
Marsh bloomers
June 14th – July, 2025, High Fens. Walking on the wooden paths (“caillebottis” in French, “vlonderpaden” in Dutch) of the Belgian highland, the marsh bloomers just above the high grasses attract immediate attention.
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Tiny monsters
June 13-14th, 2025, High Fens near the Belgian-German border. The leaves of the sundew (zonnedauw (NL), rossolis (F)) are particularly well-equipped to catch small insects and any minute things that come too close to their tentacles. These tiny monsters aren’t … Continue reading
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Wild bloomers
June 12th, 2025, High Fens, Belgium-Germany border. Late spring in the High Fens offers special treats such as cottongrass (veenpluis), common sundew (zonnedauw) and arctic starflower with six or seven sepals (zevenster). Also, we were careful not to step on … Continue reading
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Staying close to the stream
March 23rd-24th, 2025, East-Belgium. The signal of spring is discrete: early daffodils start colouring the meadows of the higher valleys while insect-eating birds such as the white-throated dipper and the great yellow wagtail are ready to care for their offsprings.
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The still landscape
Feb. 1, 2025. Repeating a walk is never the same as it was. Winter is ideal to view the landscape from a different angle : everything seems quieter, more static, more desolate… The colours are, however, more vivid than in … Continue reading
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Early day
Rocherath, Belgium, Aug. 29th, 2024. After an early start of the day, we headed to the border where we had spotted a red kite family a few weeks ago. With the farmer harvesting the fields, much to our astonishment, we … Continue reading