Cuckoo

Cold, cloudy, showery, NE 4 - A weekend dominated by a brisk wind off the North Sea. Visits to Lade this morning delivered my first Cuckoo of spring flying over the willow swamp where there was also an increase in Sedge Warblers with at least six singers around the sheltered ponds. A small flock of Swallows hawked low over the top of north lake and a few more Whitethroats had moved in across the site since my last visit . A check of the bay from the Tavern viewpoint yesterday produced several flocks of Bar-tailed Godwits on the sands with distant birds moving offshore. Farmland Ted walk`s to the north of New Romney produced several more singing Lesser Whitethroats and Sedge Warblers, while a steady trickle of calling Mediterranean Gulls continue to pass overhead.