We took a birding trip outside Amsterdam. Yes it is quite flat and there is a lot of water and dikes and farmland and some old windmills (that don't seem to be used much) and lots of th modern steel windmills. Windy place. IF you have seen Dutch art from the Golden Age (Rembrandt and others) you might think the skies were over dramatic and very dark and take up too much of the canvas. Well, that is what it really looks like.
The place we went birding was called Oostvaardplassen. It is a polder that was (reclaimed land surrounded by dikes) created in the 1960s and then was never developed. It now has a 'virgin landscape' and some odd and very old species of mammals. The horses below are called conic and they all look virtually alike (I believe they are from eastern Europe). There are also horned heck cattle and red deer - all somewhat different from the forms we are used to seeing. 
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