Ems Pond Near Steinhorster Becken

Here you can experience pure nature

Defrosted Emsteich - a great refuge: the nature reserve serves as resting place, food and moulting place as well as wintering place for migrating bird species. It is also a breeding and refuge for birds that are typical of wetlands. In winter, swimming and diving, Arctic geese, gray and white egrets, cormorants and goosander back here. In the spring, the cranes take a break when returning from the south, fish eagles, black storks and peregrine falcons, the basin also serves as a resting place at the time of bird migration. The breeding birds include the species Black-headed Gull, Lapwing, Curlew and Great Crested Grebe. In 2010, a pair of white storks successfully brooded on a stork mast for the first time.

Here at the Steinhorst basin, a "fish ladder" was removed and replaced by a natural river course. Great :-)