First thing this morning it was sunny and bright and I just had to go on to Dartmoor to see if there was any sign of a Cuckoo. I hadexperienced  such fantastic close views last year. I arrived at around 9.30, climbed out of the car and even before I had shut the door, there he was, calling from the same tree that he had been last year.  My heart raced with excitement 370 days have passed for us both since I last saw him……. surely it has to be the same bird.  In the last year I have travelled around the world and so much has happened and I could say the same for him.  He has flown accross the Sahara to the Cameroons or Ivory Coast or Senegal, I'll never know.  Perhaps he's been in the Atlas Mountains crossed the Med in to Sapain or maybe Italy, but here he was back in Devon on the exact tree that he fed from last year, incredible! To cut a long story short, I had another fantastic morning because by 1230, just like last year he had gone.   I had said that when I had first photographed him it had been one of my best ever wildlife encounters and today, well it was even better.  I ecpected to spend a few minutes and then return back to the woods for another great session here but in the end he put on a wonderful show for 3 hours.  Feeding and calling from the old hawthorns very near to me and in good light with the sun at my back.  I will be posting lots more photos later on but for the time being here is the best one!