First Cuckoo

[tootles]

I have just heard my first cuckoo this year - it must be spring
Anyone else???
Tx

[everdream78]

That's brilliant! Must confess that I've never heard a cuckoo :-(

[Polly Fouracre]

In twenty-five years of living in Devon I have heard the cuckoo maybe four times.Living in County Cork in Ireland they would send you mad with their cuckooing all Spring!!

[Nicos]

We have one calling each year on the allotment- not heard it yet though...maybe this weekend????

[rustylady]

I thought to myself - that's really early. Then I realised that you live in France Tootles. None in East Anglia yet.

[Paulottie]

Don't say that! cos you've got to get your wheat in before the cuckoo...normally about the 17th April. we have some long straw wheat for corn dollies that we are growing this year.

[Nicos]

Don't say that! cos you've got to get your wheat in before the cuckoo...normally about the 17th April. we have some long straw wheat for corn dollies that we are growing this year.

any photos ?????

[littlemark]

Thanks for the 'heads-up' tootles, I can start drinking the cider now

Mark

[quark1]

Not heard a cuckoo - but when my son and I went to shops yesterday a male pheasant was strutting along our road! Looking somewhat lonely and lost.

OK - we're cheek by jowl with a stretch of open field/downland but in the 10 years we've lived here this is one of the most unusual spots - the other being the sight of a heron!

[smallblueplanet]

The original 'spotee' of the cuckooing is in France, its probably still quite early for most places in the UK. We get ours about the third week in April.

[Paulottie]

any photos ?????

Of what?Long stemmed Wheat? corn dollies? We managed to get it planted today...not much to see yet. Neighbour was amused.....'You going to thatch your shed then?'

Not heard a cuckoo - but when my son and I went to shops yesterday a male pheasant was strutting along our road! Looking somewhat lonely and lost.

OK - we're cheek by jowl with a stretch of open field/downland but in the 10 years we've lived here this is one of the most unusual spots - the other being the sight of a heron!

Blimey, we have trouble avoiding the pheasants this side of Sussex. Always sad when I see them run over. They come on the roads to pick up grit for their gizzards. They look splendid the cock birds now but spend their time loving or fighting.

A couple of doors up have a small fish pond the heron is often sitting on the roof...amazing how still they can sit...Every-so-often the neighbour comes out clanging her saucepan to scare it off.