Updates from our Cuckoos

Chris remains in the Sedlescombe area but appears to have moved slightly west.

Martin continues to move around the area inland of Winterton Dunes and south of Hickling Broad.

Lyster remains in the area just north of Reedham although on Thursday morning he made a brief excursion down the Waveney valley to near Haddiscoe.

Kasper remains in the Hickling Broad and Horsey area.

Clement is on the move again. By Tuesday morning, he had moved 140km east to Burgundy region. He appears to be homing in on forested landscapes, like the one around Thetford in which he was tagged.

Chris has remained in the area near Sedlescombe in East Sussex since his movement over the weekend, an accurate fix early this morning placing him a little to the north of the village.

Kasper remains in the same general area although the last location received (0940 hrs 8 June) was a little to the south-east, in the area that Martin has been hanging out in.

Lyster remains in the Reedham area – on Monday night he roosted in a small wood 1.7km (1 mile) north of the village.

Martin’s stay in Caister was short-lived – by early morning of 7 June he had returned north to the area inland from Winterton Dunes that he had been in previously. He also briefly visited Hickling Broad – he and Kasper appear to now have over-lapping homes ranges.

An interesting sighting of a Cuckoo “with a wire sticking out of its back” near Breydon Water (very close to where we tagged Martin) on 29th May was reported to BTO by Nick Richardson
 

The last bird to be tagged, Chris, remained near to where he was caught for the rest of 1st June. By the evening of 3rd June he had moved to the north of Thetford Forest north of Mundford, 7km (4 miles) away.

After a wholly unexpected movement, Chris was next located 48 hours later on the evening of Sunday 5th June just outside the village of Sedlescombe near Battle, in East Sussex! He roosted overnight at this location 10km (6 miles) inland from the Sussex coast. Together with the movement of Clement, this means that both of the young males tagged in the Thetford Forest area have already moved off south, having apparently started their post-breeding migrations a month earlier than expected.