My First Cuckoo!

[Macaroon]

Standing at the back gate about eleven this morning chewing on the local gossip with the neighbour - and there he was! (or she).

So very welcome as always, but especially as last year we didn't get a sign of them at all;
The nearest to home I heard them in 2013 was two miles away..............

Optimism and melancholy in equal measure

 

[treadlightly]

Always a sound to make you stop.

 

[Gaudette]

Sorry, but I hate Cuckoo's. They'd be great if they didn't go Cuckoo all @&#*^%#* day!


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[Macaroon]

Sorry, but I hate Cuckoo's. They'd be great if they didn't go Cuckoo all @&#*^%#* day!


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That's the first time I've ever heard of anybody who finds that sound annoying! Each to their own, though

 

[Harvestman]

My first one was today. I got a bad picture of it too!

 

[xylaria]

We heard our first one about an hour ago.

 

[General Strike]

The difference between the notes of a cuckoo call is a perfect fifth - at least, more perfect than many humans can manage! Interesting that the qualities of music must at a basic level, be universal - and one must acknowledge that you very rarely hear a songbird hit a bum note!

 

[Harvestman]

The difference between the notes of a cuckoo call is a perfect fifth - at least, more perfect than many humans can manage! Interesting that the qualities of music must at a basic level, be universal - and one must acknowledge that you very rarely hear a songbird hit a bum note!

You obviously haven't heard the one I did. It was more of a "cuck-eurgghh!"

I think it was out of practice!

 

[petrochemicals]

I too hate cuckoo's. They do it all day long, and when you have been woken up in a tent at 5 oclock every morning for two weeks, they do tend to loose there charm by 11 oclock ish, for the rest of time, I think we must have camped under the nest or something. Alot like the farmers rooster or a crows nesting site. Nice though if you can shut them out I suppose !

 

[General Strike]

You obviously haven't heard the one I did. It was more of a "cuck-eurgghh!"

I think it was out of practice!

That 'sounds' like the fox who lives near me...