Kasper in northern Italy!
New positions for Kasper received this morning (23 June) showed he had moved a further 565km (353 miles) south-east since Monday morning! He is now in northern Italy between Parma and Venice a little to the east of the parts of Piedmont and Lombardy in which several BTO-ringed Cuckoos have been found.
He has now moved 1100km due south-east from the location at which he was tagged. The two places he stopped en route lie directly on this trajectory and he appears to have crossed the Alps in eastern Switzerland.
Lyster still in Norfolk
On Tuesday (21 June) afternoon Lyster was still in the Reedham area.
Martin returns to Breydon Water
The latest fixes for Martin (on Tuesday) were not very accurate but suggest he was probably still in the Runham area. However, this morning Peter Allard saw and photographed a Cuckoo with a satellite tag - back at the place where Martin was tagged adjacent to Breydon Water!
Peter says today is the first time a Cuckoo has been in the area for some time. This (see photo) must surely be Martin –and we await new positions later today that will hopefully tie in with this!
A BTO Cuckoo was spotted and photographed. In the second photo you can just see the aerial of the tag on the back of the Cuckoo, which is enlarged in picture 3. Photos by Peter Allard.
Clement remains in wooded hills
The latest positions we have show that on Tuesday afternoon Clement was still in the wooded hills east of Toulon, just east of Collobrieres.
Kasper makes a long flight south
Kasper has left the Antwerp area and by the morning of Monday (20 June) he was a further 300km (190 miles) south-east, on the border of France and Germany 45km (27 miles) south-east of Luxembourg. In the last ten days since leaving the location at which he was tagged he has moved 540km (336 miles) south-east.
Chris stays near Maastricht
Early on Monday morning (20 June) Chris was still in The Netherlands about 20km (12 miles) NNE of Maastricht. We are interested to see where he will go next – as he had left Thetford Forest to the south we had expected him to follow Clement into France, both he and Kasper are to the south-east of their tagging locations. Will they continue in that direction or turn west and go past the west end of the Alps like Clement?
Will Lyster be the next to leave?
On Sunday (19 June) Lyster was still close to Reedham. Lyster is the last of the one year old males remaining in the breeding area. Will he be the next to leave?
Will Martin out-stay the rest?
Early on Sunday (19 June) morning Martin was still close to Runham. As the only adult male amongst our sample of tagged birds, Martin might be expected to remain in the UK looking for mating opportunities longer than the other birds. Watch this space.
Clement may be moving east
By early Sunday morning Clement appeared to have moved east back towards his previous location but the accuracy of this position is low so it is difficult to be sure.
Chris has left the country!
An accurate location received in the afternoon of Friday (17 June) places Chris in a narrow finger of the Netherlands just a few kms from both Belguim and Germany! Chris has moved 370km (230 miles) due east from Sedlescombe in two days – he is our third Cuckoo to leave the country.
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