So we may have done the Netherlands a little backwards. Having started with Rotterdam, Delft, and Den Haag, we saw the charm of the canals, bicycles, and gables early on. Thus once in Amsterdam, it felt like much of the same, but overcrowded and on steroids. Nonetheless we made excellent use of our time in the city, and the unseasonably warm, excellent weather.
Quick Internet research tells me this may be a Coot
This may be a Eurasia blackbird
This is definitely a grey heron
Cribbage in the park
The requisite gable photo. Notes of interest picked up from the canal tour: The hooks at the top are for a pulley system to help store goods during high water or flooding, the buildings are actually built leaning toward the canal to better facilitate the aforementioned hoisting, straight edged gables symbolized warehouses.
Best view in the city, from the roof terrace of the library.
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