It was a beautiful morning with fog. I went to a small wet forest area called “Heerendonk” close to the village where I grew up. This is where it all started. For many subsequent years (in the ‘90’s) I carried out a bird monitoring project in this forest. Those were the days of breeding Nightingales (
Luscinia megarhynchos/Nachtegaal), and Golden Oriole (
Oriolus oriolus/Wielewaal).
Today I was here to search for resting butterflies between the flowing Cuckooflowers (Cardamine
pratensis/Pinksterbloem). All in all I found 4 Orangetips (
Anthocharis cardamines/Oranjetip), 7 Green-veined Whites (
Pieris napi/Klein Geaderd Witje), and 1 Small White (
Pieris rapae/Klein Koolwitje). Oh, and I also heard my first Cuckoo (
Cuculus canorus/Koekoek) of the year!
* Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 70-200mm/f2.8 @ 180 mm; ISO-200, f5, 1/320s; +0.7 stop; hand held.
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