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Warta river mouth national parc

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West Poland. At the border is town Kuestrin (Germany) and Kostrzyn (Poland). This is a big river delta into river Oder.

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I visited it at 4. March ( max. 2 centigrade, mostly ice on the river, some open places)Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Woodpigeon, Stock Dove, Eurasian Skylark, Corn Bunting, Eurasian Jay, Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 x Eurasian Treecreeper 2 x Rook, Hooded Crow, Northern Raven e.g. group with 5 Common Buzzard different times

White-tailed Eagle 11 x, e.g. group with 5 on ice Eurasian Kestrel 3 x Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Marsh Tit, Eurasian Bullfinch

White Swan different Swan groups between 50-100, Whooper Swan all together >1.000 Swans ?, Common Coot, Great Cormorant, Common Crane small groups, Dunnock 1 x Greylag Goose 70.000 Geese should be in the NP in Bean Goose this time Grey Heron Mallard lot of assemblies which I never saw, Common Pochard Common Goldeneye different Tufted Duck Eurasian Wigeon different Eurasian Teal 1 x Northern Pintail 1 x Grey Partridge 3 x Common Gull Black-headed Gull just changing to black head European Herring Gull Goldcrest Goosander common Smew common European Goldfinch 1 group in the tree

I never saw so much bird assemblies.

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Reachable in 1,5 h with car from Berlin city centre. Very interesting for birders is the street from Kostrzyn to Slonsk but there are lot of car traffic.

We traveled from Kostrzyn to Slonsk and back to Slubice over border to Frankfurt(Oder). The autobahn Berlin - Frankfurt(Oder) is strong frequented with trucks ( traffic jam until autobahncircle of Berlin is possible ).

Normally truck use right lane, but not every time. Street Berlin - Kostrzyn is not so frequented, but lots of German shopers come to Kostrzyn specially on weekend.

Big supermarket in Kostrzyn accept Euro.

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Warta River National Park

http://www.mos.gov.pl/kzpn/en/uwar_gb.htm

Content and images originally posted by albatross02