Cuckoo and Corn Bunting

I did a Corn Bunting survey this morning which took a full 4 hours and covered 12 km of cereal field margins which were all wet! My reward was sightings of a juvenile Cuckoo, juvenile Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, 12 Corn Buntings and a possible Yellow Wagtail but I'll never know for sure if it was. Other birds were Whitethroat, Stock Dove, Reed Buntings, Yellowhammers and at Auchmithie 6 Puffins. All but the last two photos taken with my SX60.

Juvenile Cuckoo, near Auchmithie, click here for video

Corn Bunting, click here for video

Juvenile Cuckoo

Juvenile Wheatear

Singing male Corn Bunting

Another Corn Bunting in different light once the sun has risen in the sky

Skylark, fledged young seen in three places

Meadow Pipit, actually at Scurdie Ness but many seen on the survey including fledged young

Gannet at Scurdie Ness before it started raining