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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: tizaala on May 04, 2012, 02:01:16 pm

Title: Report of cuckoo
Post by: tizaala on May 04, 2012, 02:01:16 pm: someone on another website has reported that she heared the cuckoo yesterday .
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Post by: Mel Rice on May 04, 2012, 02:05:17 pm: I heard one here this morning!.....Ive seen a swallow too.
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Post by: jaykay on May 04, 2012, 04:49:30 pm: Goodness. It'll be another 6 weeks before there are cuckoos here. There are swallows though ;D
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Post by: Sylvia on May 04, 2012, 05:04:40 pm: We have swallows now but I've never heard a cuckoo here. :(
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Post by: fifixx on May 04, 2012, 05:14:58 pm: North Dorset - all the swallows arrived with the floods last Thursday! I heard the first cuckoo on Monday and we now have 2 resident on the farm which is lovely to hear.
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Post by: Bert on May 04, 2012, 05:22:27 pm: I posted about cuckoos on the 24th April under the title another first for the year ;D
I've heard lots since then :thumbsup:
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Post by: colliewoman on May 06, 2012, 10:54:21 pm: Don't forget the rhyme when you hear them!

If you hear a cuckoo, turn over all the coins in your pocket and say;
'Lucky coins now I count thee,
Cuckoo fairy bring me bounty'.
Can't say it's brought me a fortune, but something lovely always turns up not long after the cuckoo's arrive every year :thumbsup:
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Post by: HelenVF on May 08, 2012, 08:08:23 pm: I heard one on 3 May.

Helen
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Post by: chairmanphil on May 08, 2012, 08:10:21 pm: haven't heard one here for years and years, they used to be there when i was young!
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Post by: SallyintNorth on May 09, 2012, 12:51:15 am: Heard our cuckoo today, also had a peewit (lapwing) calling and displaying over our pasture :love:
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Post by: Bert on May 09, 2012, 07:24:12 am: Quote
Quote from: SallyintNorth on May 09, 2012, 12:51:15 am
Heard our cuckoo today, also had a peewit (lapwing) calling and displaying over our pasture :love:
Love lapwings my favourite bird
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Post by: MAK on May 09, 2012, 08:28:26 am: We heard one a few weeks back but last Friday at 16:00 hrs someone turned on the cricket/grasshopper switch. Almost a month late compared to last year.
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Post by: HelenVF on May 09, 2012, 09:48:12 am: I've done a lot of work with lapwings - love them, as well as all the other upland waders. First sign of spring when our curlews come back :)

Helen
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Post by: chairmanphil on May 09, 2012, 02:49:08 pm: we have some skylarks in the field, checking out the hollows and nooks, but sadly no cuckoo. miss that call!
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on May 09, 2012, 03:17:24 pm: coincidentally - cuckoo arrived here this morning and was cuck-ooing away in the huge line of beech trees at the top of our northern field. Lovely that they are back again, have them every year. Not sure the pipits and dunnocks will be so pleased...:-)))