Søgård Mose Bird Reserve, Denmark to Dancamps, Kolding

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Søgård Mose Bird Reserve to Dancamps

Søgård Mose Bird Reserve to Dancamps

A fairly long drive through Denmark to the campsite at Kolding, Dancamps. As you drive through Denmark you are left with the impression of a largely-agricultural country; not a lot of industry is visible from the main roads. 

We are up at our usual time, listening to the birds: blackcap, chiffchaff, yellowhammer, greenfinch; all the usual woodland birds. A car arrives with three people, no spotting scopes but large loppers. Mr C. goes to talk to them and they tell him they are volunteers who have come to do some cutting back on some of the lesser used areas. Mr C. goes back to the observation tower but still no birds on the lake (or any more woodland birds in the trees).

We drive from Sǿgård to a nearby lake at Kalvǿ, park up and walk around the lake, it is very hot again 30°C today so we are glad of tree cover. Again, no particularly interesting birds, so we drive on to the next lake at Slivsǿ Ost, Mr C. walks up to the lake while I rest. There is a model aeroplane club near by and I am entertained by a variety of large models being put through their paces! Very noisy but quite interesting.

From Slivsǿ back on H170 we continue driving north on E45 to Hadersley and Kolding. Here we take the road to Bramdrupdam and find the Dancamps camping site. We stop, relax and open wine! We spend some time reading/journaling till early evening when it begins to cool and have chicken chilli with rice for tea.

Dancamps Kolding images

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