Cuckoo!

After a meeting at Kelham Hall this afternoon, I was able to get out to Collingham a bit earlier than usual for a weekday. Highlights were a silent and very obliging male Cuckoo feeding along the fenceline on the eastern boundary of the Silt Lagoon and a Reed Warbler in the reedbed there, and a single Wheatear in the sheepfield south of Ferry Lane Lake. Mons Pool held 5 Dunlin and 3 Redshank, with a Lesser Whitethroat near the hide. I also saw my first three Green-veined Whites of the year. 

Cuckoo

On a related topic, I continue to top the Midlands league for Patchwork Challenge, but only just, and for how much longer?!