Garganey, or Summer Teal as it is known in both Dutch and French, is one of our most beautiful ducks and extremely rare in Brussels (our last was almost two years ago). I thus couldn't resist going to see this handsome male which was found yesterday in Anderlecht. It certainly felt like summer too, with lots of Swallows skimming the water surface and several Swift flocks high in the sky.
A nice discovery I made the other day was this Map butterfly warming itself up on a discarded mattress!
Another highlight of the past ten days or so was finding a singing, migrant Wood Warbler, which is almost as rare within Brussels as Garganey.
Garganey by Richard Prior
