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May 2022
9:55am, 15 May 2022
3,285 posts
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flyingfinn
Some from my wanderings on Mull yesterday.
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May 2022
10:02am, 15 May 2022
6,068 posts
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um
A lot better than my cuckoo and buzzard ff!
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May 2022
11:13am, 15 May 2022
55,410 posts
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Derby Tup
Is that your local diver you’ve taken with you ff?
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May 2022
8:02pm, 15 May 2022
88,962 posts
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Hanneke
Cuckoo not shutting up 
It took its time here on the Welsh Borders. First heard it 13 April in the Netherlands...
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May 2022
10:06pm, 15 May 2022
3,696 posts
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jacdaw
In response to my comment some time ago; the St Mark's flies have now turned up in droves, despite St Mark's day being 3 weeks ago.
The Mayflies are here too, but obviously they have a more accurate calendar.
No cuckoos or divers here, sadly.
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May 2022
10:14pm, 15 May 2022
3,286 posts
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flyingfinn
Is that your local diver you’ve taken with you ff?
Possibly and half a dozen of his best mates. Mull must be a migration stop over. They are everywhere, often very close in.
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May 2022
6:41am, 16 May 2022
4,033 posts
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phal
Excellent ff 😀
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May 2022
1:22pm, 16 May 2022
2,558 posts
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Surelynot
Cuckoo heard around Ben Lawers area on Wednesday/Thursday last week and heard two in Ae Forest yesterday morning which is more local to me.
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May 2022
8:24pm, 16 May 2022
4,034 posts
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phal
Cuckoos on our walk just at a local-ish woodland/green space.
Also a snake! My brain thought it was a tyre in the grass and didn’t register it until Phoebe pulled at it and it slithered off. It had a good girth! Some kind of grass snake we reckon on a Googling!
Plus our robins have hatched 😀 Lots of parental activity and if you spy carefully we could see the bright yellow gape of a chick too. We rarely go close as we don’t want to spook the parents. They are wary whenever we’re in the garden even if we’re sitting down away from the nest.
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May 2022
8:34pm, 16 May 2022
14,377 posts
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HowFar?
Mayflies are just beginning to hatch here too. I saw my first of the year at Lough Keenaghan on Saturday. It was just flying towards some bushes, when it was intercepted mid-air by a hungry robin.
There are a couple of mayflies dancing near the trees just outside the kitchen window this evening.
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