As of yesterday, Chris was still on the banks of the River Lark, near to Mildenhall, Suffolk. He seems to have settled in this area and not chosen to head north into Thetford Forest to the site that he was tagged a year ago.
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Chris settled close to Mildenhall
18 May 2012
Chris still close to Mildenhall, Suffolk
10 May 2012
Chris's tag is due to come back online today. The last signals recieved on 8 May showed that he was still south west of Barton Mills and Mildenhall, Suffolk. He is 16km south east of his original tagging site at Santon Downham. He seems to be focussing on patches of isolated woodland on the south bank of the River Lark.
Chris returns to Thetford Forest
4 May 2012
Data received from Chris' tag yesterday shows a location of Thetford Forest, the site where Chris was tagged in June 2011. In the eleven months and 10,000 miles since he was last in Norfolk, Chris has been followed by thousands of well-wishers. The drama of his journey is only matched by how much he, and his comrades, have taught us about Cuckoo migration, neatly summarised here.
The Only Way is Essex for Chris!
1 May 2012
With Chris having been heading slowly northwards towards the Alps at the weekend and with conditions favourable for onward migration, we were keenly anticipating the resumption of transmissions from his tag. Locations received early on Tuesday morning (1 May) showed that he was between Epping and Chipping Ongar in Essex! This places him about 5km (3 miles) east of Epping Forest. He had migrated 950km (592 miles) in a north-westerly direction during the previous 48 hours.
Chris’ position is about 90km (56 miles) SSW of Thetford Forest (where he was tagged) and about the same distance north of the Sedlescombe area of East Sussex where he spent some time before leaving the country. It will be interesting to see if he makes his way back to Thetford Forest in the coming days…
Chris moves north to Milan
30 April 2012
Chris is still in northern Italy, but is on the move. His last transmission on 29th April came from just outside Milan, around 30 miles north-west of his previous location. We hope that the next set of data, due tomorrow, will show that he has crossed the Alps.
