The Birds !

This might look as a scene out of the world famous Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds’, but in reality this is going on right now.

In the nature reserve ‘Molsbroek’ at Lokeren (Belgium), a large colony of about (estimated) 2000 Black-headed Gulls is breeding in the reedbeds and on tiny islands in the lake. This is a noisy species, constantly quarreling and fighting to defend the nesting place.

Dutch name : Kokmeeuw
German name : Lachmöwe
Latin name : Chroicocephalus ridibundus (previous Larus ridibundus)