The Wadden Sea is an intertidal zone in the south-eastern part of the North Sea. It stretches along the coasts of north-western continental Europe and the Frisian Islands, forming a shallow landscape of tidal flats, wetlands and rich biological diversity.
We went there to experience Sort Sol, or “Black Sun”, the natural spectacle created when huge flocks of starlings gather and move together above the marshes. It is hard to believe, but there may be close to a million birds in a single formation.
Black Sun is difficult to describe in words. Photographs can show the patterns and movement, but they cannot reproduce the sound, the smell or the feeling of standing beneath the flock. It really has to be experienced.
I hope you enjoy a few impressions from the day.
Photographs by Jørgen Guldmann.
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