Have you heard one lately

jaysay · 03-05-2009, 09:24

I was led awake at about 7-30 this morning, everything was quiet, no cars nothing, except the singing of birds. The window was open, as it usually is at this time of year, then I heard a sound I haven't heard for many years, a cuckoo, anybody else heard one lately?

pipinfort · 03-05-2009, 09:45

My mum & dad have one that visits the garden about every 2 days but they were only saying yesterday that they have`nt seen it for a couple of weeks...........

katex · 03-05-2009, 10:10

Heard a little on Radio 2 yesterday about cuckoos Jaysay, but darn it, wasn't listening properly ... seems now normal at this time of year to hear their mating call. Sorry, bit useless, but think that is why they were talking about it. LOL.

cashman · 03-05-2009, 10:22

heard one a couple of weeks ago up owd bobs, but not since.

flashy · 03-05-2009, 10:29

i'm sure i have one living in the tree's in my garden, i hear it most mornings

Benipete · 03-05-2009, 17:50

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I was led awake at about 7-30 this morning, everything was quiet, no cars nothing, except the singing of birds. The window was open, as it usually is at this time of year, then I heard a sound I haven't heard for many years, a cuckoo, anybody else heard one lately?

Not heard one since I lost my job cleaning the crap out of the back of the clocks in Berne.

jaysay · 04-05-2009, 09:41

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Originally Posted by Benipete

Not heard one since I lost my job cleaning the crap out of the back of the clocks in Berne.

Yet another gem from the Less and Beni school of mirth

jaysay · 04-05-2009, 09:44

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Originally Posted by flashy

i'm sure i have one living in the tree's in my garden, i hear it most mornings

Cuckoos don't live anywhere flashy they're just ungrateful lodgers, they lay their egg then leave it for some other poor little sod to bring up their young for them

Benipete · 04-05-2009, 10:12

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Cuckoos don't live anywhere flashy they're just ungrateful lodgers, they lay their egg then leave it for some other poor little sod to bring up their young for them

My mother must have been a Cuckoo then.

jaysay · 04-05-2009, 11:21

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Originally Posted by Benipete

My mother must have been a Cuckoo then.

I'd have to look at you feathers before I could comment Beni

flashy · 04-05-2009, 11:34

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Cuckoos don't live anywhere flashy they're just ungrateful lodgers, they lay their egg then leave it for some other poor little sod to bring up their young for them

Posted via Mobile Device are they all male then jay?

jaysay · 04-05-2009, 15:19

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Posted via Mobile Device are they all male then jay?

No female with a drinking habit

West Ender · 04-05-2009, 21:49

I live in a semi rural place and I haven't heard a cuckoo for about 10 years. We get a big variety of birds here, I get woodpeckers and hawks in my garden and I often see the local pair of buzzards circling. I once saw a buzzard swoop down and get a wild rabbit in its talons - never seen that before or since - but not a note of a cuckoo.

I don't know why the cuckoos have deserted Cheshire but they seem to have. I only ever saw one once, when I was a teenager in West End, chasing a dragon fly. It flew very close and I was amazed how big it was but very distinctive with its stripey chest.