Jyllinge Holme

The islands from the north west, with Jyllinge in the background.

Jyllinge fishing village.

Jyllinge Holme consists of a chain of small islands: Lilleø (off Jyllinge), Langholm, Jernhatten, the three Kattehuls islets, Flængholm, Yderste Holm, Tobaksholm and Våddrager islets over by Eskilsø. Apart from Lilleø they are all low lying and flat.

The lagoon on Flængholm, with Østskoven in the background.

Flængholm is a ring-shaped island with a pond in the middle. There are large scatterings of boulders around the islands, and these add interest to the landscape at low water.

Scattered stones at low water, north of the Våddrager islands.

Langholm has one of the largest colonies of common gull in the fjord, with up to 500 pairs.

The west coast of Yderste Holm. Notice the different vegetation zones.

In the 1980s Yderste Holm had one of the biggest colonies of common tern in the country, with 70-80 pairs, but it was destroyed by rats in 1990 and has not been re-established since. The Jyllinge Holme islands have one of Denmark’s largest colonies of mute swan, with over 150 pairs. The islands are also home to almost all the fjord’s species.

Vegetation, with scentless mayweed, on Flængholm. Eskilsø in the background.

The dominant plants, apart from grasses, are scentless mayweed, wormwood and sea aster. On Yderste Holm there are beds of madwort, and marsh samphire is found in hollows on Flængholm.

Salt-tolerant samphire grows in hollows on Flængholm.

At the end of winter the ”Jyllinge Holme” hunting society sets up shelters formed by the lowest ring of branches of Christmas trees, upside down, to conceal the nests of ducks etc.