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Cuckoo

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Sharron

Sharron Report 16 May 2015 14:58

I heard the cuckoo soon after it was let out but have not heard it since.

lavender

lavender Report 16 May 2015 07:18

I'm just lying in bed listening to ours outside :-D

**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★

**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ Report 15 May 2015 20:44

Bob..i just surmised that was what he was doing....

I usually don't see them so i was amazed when i saw this one just sitting there..
hope he doesn't sit there again or the local cats will have him, they are such a nuisance killing the birds. :-(

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 15 May 2015 20:09

I have not seen one but often hear them here in Rural Bedfordshire

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 15 May 2015 19:57

so you're a twitcher then Bob :-D :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Denburybob

Denburybob Report 15 May 2015 19:56

Cuckoos don't eat seeds Stella. If they lay their egg in a linnet nest they may not survive as linnets will feed them seeds.

Dermot

Dermot Report 15 May 2015 19:54

Country folk love to hear the cuckoo's first call because it means that summer was on its way. For us as schoolchildren, that also indicated that the summer holiday away from our school books was fast approaching.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 15 May 2015 19:35

not heard one yet - didn't hear one last year either :-S

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★

**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ Report 15 May 2015 19:33

i have had one sitting on the gate would you believe.. i think he was trying to fathom out how to get food from the small feeder i put out for the robin and sparrows.

He wasn't singing tho'..lol

Denburybob

Denburybob Report 15 May 2015 19:30

I haven't heard one around here yet. That is Enfield, by the way.

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 15 May 2015 19:12

First one early afternoon today :-D

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 15 May 2015 18:57

I heard my first cuckoo 3 weeks ago, in the New Forest

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 15 May 2015 18:33

I don't suppose its the first heard this year
but I heard my first 2015 cuckoo at around 2:30 pm on Wednesday afternoon, at Norman Cross,near Yaxley, Peterborough.

sad to realise that some other birds' chicks were kicked out of their nest by this alien creature...........

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960