Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen
Wet meadows and ditches that flood each winter, drawing thousands of wintering ducks and geese.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen wetland reserve on the edge of Ghent is about water, and who decides where it goes. It runs from a medieval drainage mill recorded in fourteenth-century deeds to the canal that changed the Leie, and to the bird counters who measure this landscape in percentages. Best heard from the path overlooking the open meadows, ideally on a winter day when the ditches are brimming.
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