I took a walk around my patch yesterday, recording around 40 species in a couple of hours. A nice, mixed flock, more typical of the Amazon than the outskirts of Brussels, contained several Long-tailed Tits (including one white-headed individual), Blue Tits, Great Tits, Marsh Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper, Chaffinch, several Chiffchaff and a single Blackcap. The flock may well have been migrating as the latter two species are on their way out, whilst my first Redwings of the autumn passed overhead. Also on their way out, so to speak, are dragonflies with very few remaining now, although a sunny spell did coax out this female Common Darter, as well as a Willow Emerald Damselfly. Those will probably be the last dragonflies I see until next spring when the cycle starts all over again.
