Army Ornithological SocietyAOS Eastern Germany Trip
An excellent day with Marsh Fritillary, Brimstone, Orangetip, Gizzled Skipper and Small Blue plus a host of others and we even managed a few birds taking our total to 102. Our first stop was at Wulfener Bruch where we spent all morning. This was another wet meadow area with some lakes. Our first bird was Grasshopper Warbler with 4 calling by the stop. During the walk Wryneck and Savi’s Warbler were added and Golden Oriole flew by on a few occasions. At a lake there was a nice viewpoint where we saw a range of ducks including Red-crested Pochard. At another lake a Whiskered Tern flew around with the Swifts. During our visit we met two wardens, Jacob and Andreas, who looked after all the reserves in the area and informed us about another place not in our guide book. After lunch at “the Golden Arches”, where Serin serenaded us, we parked by an old military training area, Oranienbaumer Heide. There are still signs of old tank training and ammunition storage. The area is huge and we managed only a small part in the north. We added Bullfinch, Crossbill and the star of the day a Great Grey shrike. Dark clouds gathered and driving north on the autobahn we could see the wall of water approaching. We drove through a major storm to our new hotel by the “tractor factory”. It then continued raining as we tucked into asparagus soup and various meats; we were close to the asparagus centre in eastern Germany.
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