Murmurations Above Restored Nature On The Island

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Driving through a paradise for birds, I recorded some 45 seconds of iPhone footage through the side window of a car to give you another impression of the diversity of this island. I filmed it on the road I drive several times a week on Schouwen-Duiveland; it connects my village of Burgh-Haamstede to the historic town of Zierikzee.

This nature area is called Plan Tureluur, where you find thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of waders, seagulls, geese, and ducks close together in a beautiful brackish water marsh. The island's south coast is also called the Bird Boulevard of Zeeland.

The Tureluur plan is all about giving agricultural land back to nature. Based on historical maps, the creeks have been restored, depressions have been excavated, and an island has been created in the open water.