Top 4 Natural Monuments around Kotuń

I came back after a year. There was very little water in the ponds.

A beautiful smooth asphalt road runs through the entire area of the Kostrzyn Valley. It is worth making a longer stop at the Kostrzyn River Valley, which is surrounded by breeding forests, alders and numerous thickets. The Kostrzyn Valley is an important area for birds, including rare and endangered species such as the corncrake, lesser spotted eagle, black stork, kingfisher, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, marsh harriers, quail, snipe, black woodpecker, nightjar, common tern, black tern and ortolan bunting.

The Dąbrowy Seroczyńskie Nature Reserve, located in the Wodynie commune in the Masovian Voivodeship, is a forest reserve with an area of approximately 550 ha, established in 1988 to protect unique habitats of luminous oak and subcontinental oak-hornbeam forest. Sessile oaks dominate here, and the ground cover includes rare plant species such as Russian laburnum, scutellaria disseminated and black laburnum. This area is also part of the Natura 2000 network, which indicates its high natural value.

Przełom Witówki Nature Reserve, locally called Zdroje - a forest nature reserve established by the Order of the Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of 11 December 1995 (MP no. 5, item 54 of 1996) on an area of 92.30 ha (currently 92.82 ha, of which 92.55 ha in the Mińsk Forest District Management Board). It is located in the Mrozy and Kałuszyn communes (Mińsk district, Masovian Voivodeship), in the Pełczanka forest district. It lies within the Mińsk Protected Landscape Area.

Watch out for frogs! Frogs return to their ponds to mate, be careful not to step on them or run them over with your bike.

The reserve, established in 1984, has an area of over 268 ha. It is an area very diverse in terms of the structure of the habitats. Its basic value is the occurrence of about 100 species of waterfowl, reed and meadow birds (both migratory and breeding). The most numerous species is the black-headed gull, followed by colonies of ducks: tufted duck, common pochard and mallard. Also noteworthy are the swan, grebe, garganey and heron. There are also sea ducks, velvet scoter, common scoter and predators: marsh harrier, buzzard, black kite. Mammals are quite numerous, including: moose, otter, badger, fox and muskrat. The flora of the reserve is very diverse. The largest area is occupied by the reed grass community and reed bed. The dominant forest communities are: redcurrant alder forest, ash-alder riparian forest, continental mixed coniferous forest, and oak-hornbeam forest and willow thickets.

A slightly waterlogged road. Sometimes mud hidden among the leaves. You can see that not many people drive there. Really worth it

Lovely! Take the message from the animals on the wooden board to heart.