It may not feel like it with this horrible heatwave we are having, but autumn is well and truly on its way. The Swifts had already vacated the skies above Brussels by the last week of July but, this morning, during an early morning tour of my Brussels patch before it got too hot, I had my first migrant of the autumn in the form of a young Common Redstart. This species does not breed in Brussels and is a scarce passage migrant, mostly in the autumn. Another, nice surprise was this day-flying Jersey Tiger moth, which I don't think I've seen in Brussels before.
