cold edge, yesterday

got a text about a cuckoo at cold edge yesterday at around 3.30pm. i asked my mum if we could go and so we did. as we arrived the phone died cvauseing problems and we got lost. my mum dropped me off at the bottom of the track and then drove off to find somewhere to park. when i got there dave sutcliff was there but the cuckoo had done a runner. sean jhonstone and then nick dawtrey arrived but still no cuckoo. Sean showed me a whinchat through the scope which was quite special as i have never seen one before. then he showed me a cute ball off fluff juvenile little owl-my first confirmed sighting off one. it was a realltreat off a day and it had only just begun. as we waited paitently for the cuckoo nick did some prowling around and then, going up to the barn called us over about a black redstart. this bird was amaing. one minuet it was there the next minuet it had gone. it flew out off the barn where nick found it and flew into a tree where we lost it. it then re-appeared on the roof off the old barn. sean went to try and find it with his camera and it appeared on the lowest barn building where we were stationed waiting for a cuckoo. it then flew off up to the top barn building and then i lost it. i managed to get these rubbish pics for the brif seconds it stayed about.

it really was a cracking afternoon also preasnt were 1 grouse flushed on the farm track and the usual mipits, swallows and woodpigeons plus a magpie.

p.s. one m,inuet after we left the cuckoo came out and flew over the road-talk about timing