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Description
While the sugar plant between Kovin and the Danube, about 50 km east of Belgrade, is closed, the triangular ponds are nowadays filled up by the pet food factory effluents, and can be quite smelly. Yet, being next to the Danube floodzone, the area is rich in wildlife and has more natural feel about it.
Local waders include srpokljuni prodnik, mali deževnik, polojnik, sabljarka, školjkarica (rare so deep in the continent), črna prosenka, priba, komatni deževnik, kamenjar (rare so deep in the continent), togotnik, spremenljivi prodnik, mali prodnik, kozica, mali martinec, pikasti martinec, zelenonogi martinec, močvirski martinec, rdečenogi martinec. Among the breeding rečni galeb, there are few pairs of črnoglavi galeb. Due to the closeness of the river Danube, terns on migration are diverse: mala čigra, črnonoga čigra, kaspijska čigra, črna čigra, beloperuta čigra and, in the breeding season, belolična čigra.
Other species include kravja čaplja and čopasta čaplja, Sršenar, sirijski detel, zelena žolna, črna žolna, rjavi srakoper, črnočeli srakoper (uncommon), bledi vrtnik, rumeni vrtnik, bičja trstnica, močvirska trstnica and rakar.
Photo (2) by Aleksandar Urosevic
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Access
While an asphalt road passes next to the pond, the turn-off is somewhat unusual and I marked it as a route on the map. If you reach the ponds by car, park at the beginning of the route (driving along the levee is prohibited and the barrier is often closed and locked). For driving directions, zoom in on the map and click on the "P" (parking) sign.