Another Cuckoo from the other day on Dartmoor.

This is arguably the best Cuckoo photograph that I have taken.  It took a great deal of effort and patience.  Cuckoos are only here in the UK for a relatively short time each summer and there is a short window when you can photograph them.  I had to get up very early in the morning to make the trip out on to Dartmoor where, with lots of experience I have discovered some good sites to give me the potential to see them.  It is really exciting when you have been sitting hidden amongst the moorland grass and bracken for a couple of hours and a Cuckoo suddenly flies in to land on the tree where you had anticipated it would. This bird is a male and it flew in to the territory of a female as I guessed it would.  One of the highlights of the year so far.