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I heard my first Cuckoo today ... )c(

How reliable is that..? May 1st. and as the rhyme goes :-

The Cuckoo arrives in April.
It sings it's song in May,
It changes it's tune in the Month of June,
And July it flies away.... :-D
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I havn't heard a cuckoo for years lucky you, and what does it change its tune to?

Answers on a postcard please.......
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How lovely not heard one in a long time either {cry}
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me neither !
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perchy wrote:I havn't heard a cuckoo for years lucky you, and what does it change its tune to?

Answers on a postcard please.......


{rofwl}


http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/cuckoos.aspx

If you click on the link above and then click on Cuckoo you can listen to the 2 cuckoo songs... )t'

I'll just go out the garden...... :-D
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)t' mainly southern and central england, I live up north {rofwl}
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perchy wrote:)t' mainly southern and central england, I live up north {rofwl}


Oooh nooo !! Don't they get up north then..... {cry}

How about you come down here then.................

Oops )sh I forgot your off to Spain tomorrow.... never mind..... {rofwl}

It would be good if others hear one, to know how far north they get confused>
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I have heard one up here but not for a long time, wonder if I will hear a spanish cuckoo senorita {rofwl}

if not will be down for a long weekend when I get back.......save one for me!
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perchy wrote:I have heard one up here but not for a long time, wonder if I will hear a spanish cuckoo senorita {rofwl}

if not will be down for a long weekend when I get back.......save one for me!



You might well hear a spaniard say ' you cuckoo senorita ' ... {rofwl}

( there's always a welcome in the welsh valleys )t' )
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jannie wrote:
perchy wrote:I have heard one up here but not for a long time, wonder if I will hear a spanish cuckoo senorita {rofwl}

if not will be down for a long weekend when I get back.......save one for me!



You might well hear a spaniard say ' you cuckoo senorita ' ... {rofwl}

( there's always a welcome in the welsh valleys )t' )


{rofwl} {rofwl}
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Funnily enough I heard the cuckoo for the first time this year today too.
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I don't think I have heard one yet this year. I have heard a robin though. :-D
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