Marbæk Walk Part 1

Today we got up and it was really windy so we decided to do this walk from where we are staying through this bird sanctuary area and see what we could see. If you look on the map we are staying just south of Sjelborg and walked up to the little bump above Marbæk through the forest/fields/whatever then looped back along the water. I was sure it would be nice and I would enjoy it, but it was amazing! I loved it! We kept going through different areas with different plants and animals and all the things! It was so much fun!! (Though we saw that sign in photo two posted and that seems like but of an overreaction ;) we saw lots of farm animals as there were lots of farms and we found these posts with a three by three grid on the bottom with different arrangements of number and placement of spikes that I guess if you have the paper for the area with a map of the trails then there is a spot to punch the corresponding holes into the paper. We’ve seen ink stamps before doing the same thing, but not these spikes! So that was kind of fun.

We got to these two small lakes and there were a ton of bright blue Common Blue Damselflies! They were so bright! And there were tons of Garden Chafer all day too! Especially where we stopped for lunch! They kept crawling all over us :) oh we also saw a Sabre Wasp! And another European Toad and a common shiny woodlouse (that is on the mossy stump).

We stopped for lunch by the sheep, but we first walked up to the “big rocks from the ice age” which were a bit disappointing and not that big. But back to the sheeps we went and had lunch at a nice picnic table and you could see the water from there and watch all the house martins flying around which was fun. And all the sheep coming up to the gate to scratch.

Then it was on to explore more! If you zoom into the photo after the second sheep photo, on the right is a horse with a rainbow jacket! I was like did they dress up for pride? Fun!

Then there were all these posts reaching you about what happened forever ago which we also enjoyed. And saw a bunch of Northern Lapwings in the fields and flying around and they were so fancy! We’ve never seen them before! It was such a nice area! I had thought do we really want to walk the whole way out there, but yes! Yes we did! I was so glad we didn’t turn back earlier!Read more