What have you seen

Hey Twitch when I was at Titchwell a couple of weeks ago there were 3 TD calling but none of them showing.  Glad to see your back on the road.  Totally agree with cakes at Cley but Mrs One has given strict instructions.........

Just left the far North of Scotland with plenty of good spots. Ospreys at both Loch Fleet and Loch Naver, loads of sea birds at Duncansby Head, including Guillimots, Kittiwakes, Great Skuas, Greater Black Backed Gulls, Shags and of course Puffins. At St Johns Head as well as Eider Ducks & Puffins on the water and flying around, were a few Black Guillimots. Unfortunately we didn't see any of the Orcas or porpoises which had been spotted earlier.

Good day with 4 x Cuckoos, 5 x Ospreys, GSW, Pied Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, 2 x Grasshopper Warblers and sundry others

Hi OP

Seems we have the same restrictions where cakes are concerned. Just got back from our first trip of the year to East Yorkshire staying at Blue Rose site. Lovely folks run the place and immaculately kept site. Bempton Cliffs drew us like a magnet wherever we were, we finished the evening with a stroll over the cliffs as the birds came in to roost. What a magnificent site and how do they not collide. Needless to say the folk we spoke to insisted we must visit either Farne or Skomer in mid June and if I follow instructions from the boss, who has demanded to see baby puffins, I might get away with a slice of cake.

Are you staying near Skomer, we are looking for a site closer than Red Kite which we will combine for a two stopper in a week or two time.. Have you made it there yet?

Couple of pics attached for anyone visiting Yorkshire to see what is in store.

Hey BM, I am back home on Friday and will respond when I get more stable wifi.

OP, Stacks of Cuckoos up at Altnaharra. We could hear then from 4:00 in the morning till 10:00 at night. We spotted 3 at one time on a telegraph wire. Lots of Skylarks at Mey, which were not bother by us being about. One would walk backward and forward along a turf bank a car's width from where I was sat.

Just found out that I can post a photo, so here's one from N.Scotland! Can't seem to be able to load any of the others.

I have heard cuckoos hundreds and perhaps thousands of times, seen their eggs in nests (when we were young and used to go out collecting birds' eggs before it was outlawed) but I've never ever seen one!  

We did see a Greater Spotted Cuckoo in a tree in the Aude departement in France - and got a photo of it but that isn't the same.  I would love to see one.

I managed to get a photo of one of the Cuckoos at the Osprey project.  I will post photo when I get home.  

Yesterday at Severn break its neck saw 3 x Dippers, got a picture of 2 of them together.

Hi Nellie

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