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Description
In Hejlsminde Nor you find open water, wet meadows, salt marshes and reed beds. You can observe large flocks of swans, geese, mergansers, grebes and ducks, which stay at the cove all year. ruskosuohaukka soar above the meadows and reeds, and the merikotka shows up regularly. Other birds you can encounter are ristisorsa, telkkä, tukkakoskelo, isokoskelo, merilokki, meriharakka, kuovi, punajalkaviklo and keltasirkku.
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Access
There are several parking places. Click on a P in the map to go to the parking of your choice. The trail around Hejlsminde Nor is 12 km long and consists of a mix of footpath and asphalt road. If you do not have the time or energy for all 12 km, the trail can be divided in to shorter trips. Most interesting for birders is the wooden walkway through the reeds. Close to the wooden walkway is also a two storey bird observation tower, where you a view across Hejls Nor. Both are marked on the map.