Besides being an inveterate art lover, Barbara De Coninck has been a passionate ornithophile all her life. Each Issue, she writes about her experience of birding from the perspective of art (and vice versa).
Everything Pulsed with Dying, except Death, Which Was Still Alive
In the Netherlands, the Kop van Overijssel likes to boast about the Weerribben-Wieden area, Western Europe’s largest peat bog. The National Park is the result of centuries of peat extraction — with reed and turf cutters working in tandem. Halfway between Giethoorn and Steenwijk, amid low-growing willows in shallow water, is the Wieden’s largest heron colony. A footpath leads through marshy woodland, mats of sedge and reed beds to the De Auken birdwatching hide.
Here you are guaranteed an (…)
