Saw a cuckoo for the first time in my life.

[xaphod]

A couple of people have said to me that they haven't heard a cuckoo this year. Neither had I until yesterday. It has been suggested that migratory birds are having greater problems crossing the Sahara which is getting wider due to Global Warming. Anyhow, hearing a cuckoo very close by, especially this late in the year surprised me. I looked out into the garden to see a pair of blackbirds fussing around a large bird right at the top of a leylandii tree at the far end of the garden. "It can't be," thought I, but I fished out the binoculars and, blow me down, it was a cuckoo. The blackbirds, obviously the erstwhile surrogate parents, rapidly lost interest in their offspring when it continued to make definitely non-blackbird noises over the next 20 minutes. .... made my day (hang on, I've said this somewhere else recently ! ) Xa

[Guest]

Close up wow you are very lucky! Often hear them around at this time only seen one in flight from about a 1/2 mile away and that was in France. Al

[Dawn HH]

I have seen a lot of cuckoos but not the kind that you saw. TEE! HEE! Cheers--- Dawn HH