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Noorder IJ-Plas

Amsterdam  >  Netherlands

One of the wildest and least-visited areas in the city of Amsterdam, with a sandy lake, hills covered with brambles, scrub and wild herbs and patches of forest.

Ajouté* par stanvrem
Dernière actualisation 31 décembre 2020

Description

The Noorder IJ-plas is one of the wildest and quietest places in Amsterdam. There are large areas of scrubland and wild herbs that are alive with the song of Rossignol philomèle, Fauvette des jardins, Fauvette grisette, Rousserolle verderolle, Fauvette babillarde and Coucou gris in spring.

The park is one of the few place in Amsterdam with breeding Linotte mélodieuse. The quiet forest areas are home to Bécasse des bois, while in areas with water Martin-pêcheur d'Europe is quite common. Regularily scan the skies and pylons for raptors. Épervier d'Europe, Buse variable, Faucon crécerelle and Autour des palombes are most common but there's a good chance of seeing Faucon pèlerin.

The sandbanks along the lake sometimes have breeding Tadorne de Belon, Hirondelle de rivage and Petit Gravelot. The more vegetated parts of the shore are home to Râle d'eau and Bouscarle de Cetti .

The lake itself has a wide variety of ducks in winter, as well as gulls including non-adult Goéland pontique and Goéland leucophée. A telescope will probably be necessary to identify everything on the lake, but it's only really worth bringing in winter when there is a lot to see. Grèbe castagneux is very common on the lake. Chevalier guignette can be found both on the shores of the lake and the shores of the IJ canal to the south.

The many shrubs are filled with berries in autumn and attract large flocks of pigeons and thrushes, including Grive litorne and Grive mauvis. The area has a herd of Scottish highland cattle and you have a chance of spotting Rabbit and Red Fox. Pine Marten have been sighted recently. There is an abundance of butterflies and dragonflies in summer, though only rather common species occur.

Détails

Accès

The area is hard to reach by car, there appear to be roads on Google maps to the south of the park, but those can only be accessed by buses. By far the easiest way to get there is by bike. There's a bus stop near the northern edge of the park, but it's quite a long walk from there to the most interesting parts in the southeast.

The park itself can really only be walked, a wheelchair or regular bicycle will get stuck in the mud, as there are no paved paths. Much of the Noorder IJ-plas consists of untended scrub and forest with a mountain bike course running through it. You can use the mountain bike course as a walking trail, but you'll have to keep an eye out for mountain bikers and the occasional illegal motocrosser.

Terrain et Habitat

Forêt , Lac , Arbres et buissons disséminés , Roselière

Conditions

Marécageux , Glissant

Boucle

Oui

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Saison idéale pour observer

Toute l'année

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Migration printanière

Itinéraire

Sentier étroit

Niveau de difficulté de l'itinéraire

Facile

Accessible via

A pied

Observatoire/hutte d'observation

Non

Liens

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