Thursday 31st May

Yesterday, James heard a Blackcap calling down in the scrubby wood behind the office at Gruinart. Also, this week, he has been seeing a rufous brown female Cuckoo on the reserve, quite often it tends to be the grey morph that we see. Round at Ballinaby this morning the Greylags were up to over 100 including the one with the large white collar round its' neck, the collar is white feathers rather than on for id purposes!!!