Bath White, or rather the cryptic pair of species it has been split into, is a migrant and extremely rare visitor to Belgium. There were a handful of sightings in 2018 and the last time it was recorded before that was in 2006! This past week, however, they have been seen regularly in the Maas valley, so I gave it a try yesterday and saw five of them on migration. They were all heading south and only one stopped long enough for me to get a good look in the binoculars, but it was off again before I could get a picture. There were lots of Pale Clouded Yellows around too, which were a lot more cooperative.
In fact, I managed to find 11 species of butterfly, including my first Painted Lady of the year, which is pretty good now that butterfly season is almost over. There were a lot of birds too, and the big collection of ducks included a Pintail, two Wigeon, and two Ferruginous Ducks.
On the Dutch side of the river, was this Bar-tailed Godwit and a migrating Honey Buzzard, making a tally of 53 species in just over four hours spent there.
