On the Midden-Brabantweg and the N261 towards Eindhoven, motorists saw dozens of storks perching on lampposts on Thursday afternoon. “It was a beautiful sight,” says taxi driver Wilma from Bergeijk, who saw the birds.
Wilma drove a customer from the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital to Bergeijk on Thursday afternoon, when they were both amazed by the storks. “There was one on every lamppost. Left and right. As far as you could see. There could have been as many as 80!” says Wilma. “Really special.”
Sometimes many storks are spotted in one place, such as last summer in Lage Mierde. Hundreds of them were sitting in a meadow at the time. At the end of summer the birds migrate south. “But the route they take remains to be seen every year. Two years ago, for example, they gathered south of Tilburg. Where they meet depends on the weather and the wind direction,” ranger Frans Kapteijns said earlier.
But not all birds go south, the ranger explains. “There are also storks that were born here, in so-called migration stations. They generally often stay here.”
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View the images of storks in Lage Mierde from last summer here: