This year has been one of the best I can recall for Common Cuckoo records on the moors with as many as six males being present. I had wondered if I might manage to see a juvenile this year, and today I did.
I think I must have seen the odd juvenile in the past, but I can't recall having done so, and they are certainly scarce. I think they head south soon after fledging, following the adults, which have mostly departed already, to Africa.
Todays bird seemed to be attached to a Meadow Pipit which was presumably the foster parent and I was a little sad to think that this might well be the last cuckoo I see this year.
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| Common Cuckoo - juvenile |
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