Caberfeidh wrote:Glad to hear the harbinger of summer is here, but I was once stuck at a bothy in Galloway with a cuckoo in the vicinity which drove me nuts with its incessant bloody call. Can you eat cuckoos?
No cuckoo heard yet here but I did see a swallow yesterday, hope the misguided soul can find some insects.
On the subject of night time cuckoos I can recall camping north of Ullapool in early May and enduring a dusk to dawn competitive cuckooing from several males. Don't know about their culinary merits but I would happily have seen the lot stuffed.