Heard my first cuckoo at Brading. Then the day after along Gander down Brading took this quickly-taken record shot of one, unfortunately interrupted by a dog walker soon after..
27th April 2015
Heard two cuckoos at Brading, in two opposing directions and within quick succession. Interestingly a satellite tagged cuckoo called 'Chris' had been recorded as stopping at Brading on the 26th and 27th, so it's quite possible I heard him.
Chris returns for fourth time - 27 Apr 2015
Chris is back in the UK once again! From western Spain he has covered 1080km (670 miles), travelling over France and the English Channel to reach a location in the Isle of Wight by the 26 April. He still has a little way further to go yet to reach his breeding grounds which are to the north-east, in Norfolk. This is the fourth return trip of his that we have been able to follow since he was tagged in 2011.
10th May 2015
From Gander today. Assuming they didn't have permission and were just ignorant?! these three idiots took to the marsh and travelled down the eastern Yar (private RSPB land). Not a good time to be out there. I got a message to the warden but probably too late and any damage from disturbance would have been done. Disappointing.....
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