The cuckoos have all reached Africa... a fascinating site from the BTO.

http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking?dm_i=IG4,J8NT,39GIFK,1KDWT,1

Record numbers of international helpers - including Ireland - are in Malta this year. Still, the slaughter continues. One image shows the once-beautiful Bee-eaters, now deprived forever of their iconic bubbling calls.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110914/local/shot-protected-birds-discovered-by-cabs.384718

WHERE did you find this! How amazing - and to think he sees these all the time!

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Aha! That may be it, MAK! Will do better next time...

  They should have just put him in a zoo or something. I didn't like this from the start. First they let him sit on that beach and eat all that sand and crap. Then rehab him, as far as I'm concerned a waste of time because they just dropped him in the sea all alone to fend for himself against all odds! Sheesh, poor planning is putting it mildly!!!     

Yup.

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MAKfalcon (MAK): B has returned to FCT same spot as last time. Gotta go!

Link:
http://twitter.com/MAKfalcon/statuses/113592452639756288

I must being doing something dumb (not again!) on the Blog Comment - but wanted you to know it's another good one, MAK. Thanks!

Plop and Flo? At the sewage works! Yaaaaaay!

The person who came up with those names is a wiz.

How did I know you would go one better?? 

Because we just knew!!

cf Cockney Rhyming Slang: Jimmy Riddle.

 

Plop and Flo? At the sewage works! Yaaaaaay!

The person who came up with those names is a wiz.

How did I know you would go one better?? 

Thanks, Ei. Sweet little fella - guess he had some good lovin' at one stage.

Was HF banded?

Only thought of the water angle later, but yeah... a tad more planning, methinks. Guess that Nature does what she does, huh?

Plop and Flo? At the sewage works! Yaaaaaay!

Had we known they were going to use some old rubbish glue, we could have had a "whip-around" and sent them a decent supply of whatever Quest has...

PLUS - what possessed them to release him so far from his own kind??

I was beginning to wonder how long she could sit there...

Yesterday was awful! Who knows how much we missed!  Gee, I actually tried  "CLEANING"!! 

I sometimes "try" that too... "try" being the word... I am NOT addicted (to "trying", that is...)

I was beginning to wonder how long she could sit there...