Sayann left the Pyrenees and took off across France at the end of last week, covering almost 1,000 km (620 miles) before arriving on the English coast on Saturday. He passed over Brighton and headed inland, straight to the Knepp Estate where he was tagged on 18 May, 2023. 

He returned five days earlier this year than he did last spring, when he took an unusual route north through Italy before arriving back in Sussex. 

As we anticipated, Joe took flight and left western France just before the weekend, making his way towards The Channel. He commenced his crossing from the Normandy coast close to the port of Ouistreham, and arrived in the UK close to Eastbourne. From there he continued onwards, and by the early hours of this morning he was back in Norfolk, close to Thetford Forest, where he was caught and tagged in May 2022.   

Following a period of radio silence, Cleeve’s tag sprang into life last week and showed that he was crossing the Sahara in south-east Mauritania. From here he headed to the Moroccan coast, from where he took a flight across to mainland Europe, arriving on the Portuguese / Spanish border. 

By Saturday he was in central western Spain, close to the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park in the province of Ávila, Castile and León. In just two days, Cleeve covered almost 2,500 km (1,550 miles)!   

Cores left Spain, and after a flight across the Bay of Biscay, came ashore in western France on Saturday. Currently in farmland on the outskirts of the town of Villeneuve-en-Retz in the Loire-Atlantique department, he is poised to head north straight into Ireland. Last year he arrived in County Cork on 22 April, so he’s pretty much on schedule!   

After making his way steadily north up through western France in the last few days, Jim launched across The Channel from Bayeux and arrived on the coast near Worthing in the early hours of this morning. From here, he headed swiftly inland and is now just around 11 km (7 miles), south of Wisborough Green, where he was tagged last May.

Following his arrival in eastern Spain a week ago, Joe has flown just over 1,000 km (620 miles) and is now just north of the Regional National Park of the Marais Poitevin, in the Pays de la Loire region of western France. 

This is the fourth consecutive spring where we have been able to follow Joe’s incredible journeys. Tagged in East Anglia back in 2022, Joe arrived back on his regular breeding grounds on April 28 last year, April 29 in 2024 and on April 24 in 2023. Will we see him back on Norfolk soil this weekend? 

Following our last update, just three days ago, Arthur left south-central Spain and headed north to Bilbao. From here he continued across the Bay of Biscay and crossed into France just to the west of Nantes, in the Upper Brittany region. He didn’t linger, and the next stage of his flight took him north, passing Saint Malo, skirting by Jersey and then into The Channel via Cherbourg. 

By the early hours of Saturday he was on the Isle of Wight, and he wasted no time heading rapidly north-east from here. He crossed London overnight, and then headed straight for Suffolk. He is currently just west of Halesworth, and within a short distance of Worlingham Marshes nature reserve where he was tagged in May 2025. 

As the first of our tagged birds to arrive in Europe, we anticipated that Ashok may also be the first to make it to the UK this spring. Having spent a few days just to the west of Valencia in early April, he continued his journey north. Last weekend he covered over 1,000 km (620 miles), crossing the Pyrenees and flying onward through central France. 

After a short stop in the large forest of Rambouillet, just to the west of Paris, he swiftly carried on and touched down in Suffolk on 7 April. While we were delighted to see Ashok back on UK soil, he seemed less impressed… in less than 48 hours Ashok had flown 300 km (186 miles) south and returned to France! He is currently on the banks of the River Seine, close to the city of Rouen in Normandy. Hopefully he will find plenty of food here to fuel his journey back to Suffolk!    

Jim has made significant progress in recent days. Having left Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) nine days ago, he travelled approximately 4,400 km (2,734 miles), crossing the Sahara via Mali, Mauritania, Western Algeria and Morocco, before powering up through Spain, crossing the eastern Bay of Biscay, and into western France. His signal shows that he is currently taking a well-earned rest on the Island of Oléron, to the west of Rochefort. 

Cuach Cores left Ghana and flew north, passing through Burkina Faso, Mali and Algeria. His latest signal shows that he has now crossed the Mediterranean, and entered Spain close to the city of Almeria. From here he has continued a further 120 km (75 miles) north and his signal shows that he is in a mountainous region close to the small village of Cañadas de Cañepla.