Wanderfilm on Texel

A mudsnail is only a few millimeters tall. Per square meter of mud the amount of these snails can reach up to 200,000 pieces. They're small, but important. They are eaten by many animals. They themselves live on algae. For that, they graze off the mudflats. We want to put this in the picture. But how do you film something of 2 mm?

Waiting for the fish.
Gradually, we discover certain patterns. Approximately every 20 minutes one of the parents comes to feed the boy a small fish, usually young sprat or sandeel. Then the wings go up for a while. But that goes so fast, you blink your eyes and you missed it. From where we sit, we can only get them recognizable with a large telephoto lens. The depth of field is so small that we should be lucky to get some of this in the picture. If they walk five meters forward, we'll lose them. When they walk behind a sand hill, they're out of the picture. Then it's again waiting for the next load of fish.

Alijuriks are the grazers of the mudflats. We see a lot today. They lie together on algae and between young mussel banks. There's little movement in it. When it gets even drier, they look for it higher. We see them among the mudflats with wider grazing tracks and try to get this into the picture.

All videos that are made will soon be part of Wwaalfilm Wadden. On a dedicated website, you can wander through 40 landscapes and watch 160 mini-documentaries of at most one and a half minutes on the road about wind, sea, sand and its inhabitants. Take a look at dwaalfilmwadden.nl !

Wanderfilm, an unexpected other nature film.
Nature films in miniature starring swamps, streams, rivers, the sea. You'll find them scrolling through landscape panoramas — over 320 stories about nature's great resilience in those places where it gets space. Where the reins have been released a little. The wealth that results from it, the plants and animals, but also the variability that goes with it; that's what Wwaalfilm is about. In 2011 went Wanderfilm online for the first time.