forest Van Gogh National Park - Kampina 1246 PM 250304_1053

Morning in Van Gogh National Park (Kampina) the March.
Forest / park ambiance in the Netherlands.

Birds detected by Merlin Bird ID appreciated

#0:59 #1:10 #1:19 #1:25 #1:25 #1:38 #1:43 #1:52 #2:00 #2:19 #2:34 #2:39 #2:45 #2:53 #2:59 #3:05 European Robin
#0:00 #0:20 #0:30 #0:37 #1:06 #1:15 #1:20 #1:28 #1:32 #1:41 #1:46 #1:51 #2:04 #2:11 #2:19 #2:24 #2:33 #2:51 #2:55 #3:00 Blue Tit
#0:47 #2:03 Eurasian Nuthatch
#0:48 Short-toed treecreeper
#0:02 #0:13 #0:34 #0:48 Great Spotted Woodpecker
#2:32 #2:54 #3:07 Carrion Crow

The Kampina is the province Brabant in the Netherlands as it once was. Here you can still find wet heathland with fens, fragrant bog myrtle thickets, meadows, deciduous forests, and bluegrass fields. We are slowly but surely transforming the monotonous pine forests into a much more varied habitat for animals, plants, and fungi. This is the afternoon sound in the mixed forest at the south of Boxtel.

I'm here on Anna Avenue, a dead straight dirt road through this beautiful natural area. The sandy path was built by Candidus ten Brink, who became rich in what was then the Dutch East Indies. He amassed various lands in the Kampina from 1834. When purchasing the heathland, he undertook to convert it into farmland and forest. For this purpose he built, among other things, this straight sandy path.

Forty-four years after his death his sisters sold the estate to the van Tienhoven family.
Gijsbert van Tienhoven bought the estate in 1904 with the same goal in mind: to make the land productive. Pieter van Tienhoven took over management of the estate in 1909.
Pieter van Tienhoven was a board member of a national nature organization Natuurmonumenten.
He clearly had an eye and a heart for nature, and when his father died in 1914, he felt free to adjust management as he saw fit.
He (Pieter) became the salvation of the heathland, the meandering Beerze and rare blue grasslands on the Kampina.
Today the Kampina is part of the 10,000-acre Van Gogh Brabant National Park and lies between the cities of Eindoven, Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch.

Because this man Pieter van Tienhoven worked so hard for nature we can now enjoy these beautiful sound recordings.

More here today / More in Kampina forest

Date/time: March 4 2025, 12:46 PM

Weather: 11-12 c, sun 90%, sun-power 540 w/h, clouds 8.5 km high, wind E-NW NNW 2 km/h - NNE 4 km/h,m max 11 km/h, 1029 hPa, humidity 50-43%, visibility 12 km

Location; Annadreef, Van Gogh Nationaal Park - Kampina area, close to village Boxtel and hamlet De Roond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe. Geo: 51.56967 5.29302

Gear chain: Sennheiser mkh30/50 MS, Mic pointed S 185 °, in Rycote cyclone small, > Sound Devices 302 >Tascam dr-100 Mk2. Decoded Mid-side to STEREO. Noise floor 29 dBA (Quiet bedroom at night)

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