De Grijze Wouw in the area between Langelo and Lieveren remains a welcome guest among bird watchers. About twenty different bird lovers captured the rare bird on the sensitive plate this weekend.
On August 25, De Grijze Wouw appeared for the first time in the Lieveren area. The rare bird of prey with characteristic red eyes attracted a lot of attention to the Staphorst area. But now the animal seems to have found a provisional home base at Langelo.
De Grijze Wouw is normally in southwestern Europe, in Spain, Portugal and southern France. Due to climate change, the bird increasingly moves north. It was therefore during the warm period in August in which this Gray Wouw looked up the Drentse Tree tops. Ecologist Hans Dekker then responded enthusiastically: “It is clearly a gray kite. He is in the tip of a dead tree and sits very characteristically upright”.
The expectation was that the stay here would not last long. As soon as the weather gets a bit colder and starts raining more often, the bird has often literally flown. And after a short trip to the Onlanden, the “Drentse” Gray Wouw seemed out of the picture for two days. But this weekend various birders are again enthusiastically going to Langelo and Lieveren, where this gray kite seems to feel pretty comfortable.