Tag: Cuckoo

  • 27th May 2025 – The Camargue, France

    27th May 2025 – The Camargue, France

    Another great day on our trip to the Camargue with plenty of photo opportunities. I am afraid the photos will have to speak for themselves.

    Montagu’s harrier (at some distance) en route to Les Salins de Giraud on the coast

    Montagu’s harrier

    Black kite

    Just what you would expect in this part of the world – a greater flamingo

    Greater flamingo

    A fresh breeze but still quite warm

    Slender-billed gull

    Pied avocet through the tinted windows of the minibus

    Les salins de Giraud

    Other activities were available

    Spoonbills and egrets

    Bee eater

    Great picnic spot under a mulberry bush

    Barn swallow

    White stork in a steep dive

    The star of the day: a cuckoo

    Common cuckoo

    A common cuckoo

    A common cuckoo

    A common cuckoo

    A common cuckoo

    Gull-billed tern

    A feathered footman moth

    Allium and snails

    Orange-winged dropwing back at the hotel

    Frog in the hotel pond

    Hotel pond