# Today in nature I saw

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**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854 "2020-07-20T18:22:11Z")\
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This is 30 km South of Berlin, Germany. It is our Erlenbruchwald about which I have posted a lot in this thread started by **Treppenwitz** :

> [@Specialized Habitats And Microenvironments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/specialized-habitats-and-microenvironments/948150/68):
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> By graceful invitation from Treppenwitz, I will contribute to this thread, starting now with a copy and paste from another thread, because I am lazy. That is what I wrote over the other thread with the title “Today in Nature I Saw”: But what I saw today in nature? I will reveal a secret here: My wife and me have just bought a swamp. Really, not kidding, 1.34 acres of bog, pure morass. The correct term for that kind of marsh in German is [Erlenbruchwald](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruchwald#Erlenbr%C3%BCche) (link to German Wikipedia). A moor where [a…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnus_glutinosa)

There is a lot to scroll, many pictures and anecdotes / stories. Feel free to ask if you have a question.

ETA:

> [@romansperson](#):
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> I don’t think I’ve ever seen water birds tooling around in a forest before (except on TV).

Well, you can see the ducks, they are quite confident around humans. The crane and the other animals? No chance. Only the motion activated camera gets them. That is why the shots are all of the same spot, that was the place I put the device this week. Good spot! Many animals.

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