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First Cuckoo

First Cuckoo


Postby Caberfeidh » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:22 am

I heard my first cuckoo of the year at Loch Leven on Sunday 18th April. Harbinger of Spring, and all that. Still, on Rannoch Moor it was bitterly cold; the wind cut right through me. Nice to get out though, and see everything is still there.

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Loch Leven - there's a cuckoo out there somewhere, honest.


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Bleak, cold and windswept - Rannoch Moor.
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Re: First Cuckoo

Postby CharlesT » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:43 pm

Not here yet in West Oxfordshire. Usually turns up around this time but bitter north easterlies for the last week or so have probably kept him sensibly further south. Getting warmer now so should arrive soon.
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Re: First Cuckoo

Postby tweedledog » Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:44 am

First one here in north Argyll this morning (April 24th). 24th to 26th is pretty much normal here, though one freaky year a poor, lonely soul arrived about 10 days earlier.
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Re: First Cuckoo

Postby CharlesT » Wed May 05, 2021 9:33 am

Heard first one here at the weekend. At least two weeks later than usual. Also saw first Swallow yesterday at the North Leigh Roman villa, on one of my regular walks. Thought he might be a bit cold and lonely in the north wind and wishing he was back in Africa.
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Re: First Cuckoo

Postby Mouse1903 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:58 pm

I've heard a lot the last couple of months, never spotted one in the wild yet though
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