Mijanou ter Braak

Saterday night we came back from a free festival when I saw something fly trough the sky at about 1 or 2 am. I knew it was an owl and because it was at a roundabout I drove around it hoping to catch a glimps of this mighty bird. Great was my amazement to see the owl sitting on a trafic sign looking at me. Even greater was my amazement when I saw there was a different kind of owl sitting a little furter on anothere trafic sign opposite this owl. It turned out he wasn't looking at me but at this other owl. because of my exitement I drove round the roundebout again and there was a black cat sitting beside it to. None of these 3 annimals did move, only one owl folowed us with his huge eyes...

In the ten years I lived in this village they have made a lot of really small strips of nature enclosure between the roads and it is just amazing how many birds have come to live in them. many of them birds of prey. Falcons, buzzards, storks, herons, white heron, owls...

It did remeber me of an interview I once listened to from four Arrows, (Donald Jacobs) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arrows who spoke about grasroot environmentalist and their effort to have a no fishing zone, with the result of a 200% increase in fish in the area...

It's really amazing that in country like Holland, were almost every native plant and animal is killed over the last centuries because of extreme greed and a total unatural lifestyle, it took only 10 years to have a rich bird population again in some smal nature enclosures between bussy roads. 

I'm just waiting for the days the wolves will run free in the woods again ;-)