Wallace is still in south-western Germany but by the morning of Friday 3 August he had moved approximately 95km (63 miles) ENE to a similar forested landscape.

On Saturday morning (28 July) Wallace was still in Picardie but according to a series of unconfirmed locations, by the early hours of this morning (30 July) he had moved 390km (243 miles) ESE to a location in extreme south-western Germany. If these prove to be correct, he is approximately 23km (13 miles) NE of the Petite Camargue Alsacienne - a research station in the south-eastern corner of France where Valentin Amrhein and his group from University of Basel have undertaken exciting research on the function of Nightingale song. He appears to be in a forested landscape to the east of the river valley containing the Nightingales.

Wallace remains in the region of Picardie, but has moved a small distance in a south-easterly direction. He is now 11km ( 7miles) south of Tergnier and less than 1 km away from ‘Circuit de Folembray’ racetrack. He is presumably resting up from his long flight from Scotland.

On Friday morning (20 July) a location from Wallace showed that he had finally left Scotland and was in the Lake District, 8.5km (5 miles) east of Keswick. Just as it was getting light on Saturday morning he was 5km (3 miles) east of Wigan and just as it was getting light this morning (23 July) he was in France, south west of Montdidier, Picardie, 558km (347 miles) south east of his last stop in the UK. Of all five of the Scottish tagged Cuckoos, Wallace has taken the most westerly route out of the UK.

Having still been in north-eastern France on Wednesday, by first thing this morning John had moved 290km (180 miles) due S. His new location is just west of the south end of the Jura Mountains 32km (20 miles) NNW of Oyonnax and 61k (38 miles) NW of Geneva. As he moves into southern Europe, he leaves Chance (still south of Berlin according to an confirmed location received Thursday – his tag is not charging well and we might expect him to move south soon) and Wallace (still near Troon on Wednesday evening) as our only Cuckoos (excluding Idemili) left in northern Europe.