Updates from our Cuckoos

...but he has not gone far, skipping over to nearby lincolnshire transmissions on the 6 July transmissions reveal. He is in the area close to Holbeach St Mark, just north of Holbeach and slightly inland from the coast. He has moved around 105km (65 miles) west from his previous location on the coast nearby Sea Palling in Norfolk. 

Apart from Skinner, the other three of our Cuckoos tagged in the Norfolk Broads remain in their tagging locations and have yet to move despite 12 out of 18 of our tagged Cuckoos having left the UK.  Lyster, one of the Cuckoos tagged in the broads in year 1 of the project was the last to leave that year on 22 July (while the other four all left in June) and earned himself the nickname ‘Lyster the Laggard’. Will our Broads Cuckoos be last to leave in year 3? 

Ken remains around Burgh Common, 1.5km (1 mile) WSW of Filby Broad, where he was tagged early on 12 May. He was the first bird tagged in East Anglia this year and one of four that we tagged in the Norfolk Broads. 

Cuckoo 128296 has received a name from Essex and Suffolk Water, who have made a generous contribution to the project. Staff voted for Ken, after Ken Saul, a volunteer at Burgh Common, the site where the cuckoo was caught, for over 30 years.