East Sailor Marshes

In Dutch it's called Oostvaardersplassen (or, more commonly, short: OVP) literally translated in English it's called: East Sailor Marshes. The first time I went there was in the winter of 2002, I saw my first Hooded crows and Peregrine, and even discovered a Ruddy duck.
I visit the OVP quite frequently (once or twice a month I think) and got the opporunity to visit it on 4 July and 6 July. On both days I made the same route but on 6 July the weather was pretty poor.

I especially wanted to see Turtle doves, I never got the chance of seeing them perched on a whire or something, bit of a shame...
Near Almere Hout was the first stop, 3 Turte doves were the first birds to notice! A shame they where only migrating. Few Linnets and a Common Whitethroat present allso.
Near the Wulpweg (all the roads in this part of Flevoland are called after some birds like Great Bustard, Curlew, Little Grepe etc.) we saw 2 stunning Montagu's Harrier, the male was foraging close to the car and I got a few decent shots from it. 13 Great White Egrets where present too.
Bit further 18 more Great White Egrets where present.

^Male Montagu's Harrier
^Great White Egret, with a vole

In the Reigerbos we saw and heard 3 Turtle doves but couldn't get a shot of any of those, 4 little Map Butterflies were also present, great little butterflies in their black and white outfit.
Then we actually entered the OVP, we saw 1 Hobby, few Spoonbills, a lot of Great White Egrets, 1 Little Egret, 7 White storks + this Avocet with her companions.

^Little Ringed Plover, female
^Little Ringed Plover, male
^Avocet, probale female
^same again

Edited these scruffy pictures to make clear the differences from male and female Little Ringed Plover.

On the 6th we didn't saw much accept for 1 Little gull and 40 Great White Egrets.
We did catch up with some cool orchids.

^Broad-leaved Helleborine

^Marsh Helleborine

And this is actually a plant from the coast of Holland but it still grows here.

^Grass-of-Parnassus