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Believe it or not Laura g they are called 'orange tips'. I saw my first of the season on Saturday.
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Never heard a cuckoo, never mind seen one. Quite bizarre really, the place where I live is translated as 'hill of the cuckoo'!!!
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They are relatively huge - when you consider the size of the birds whose nests they ravage!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Would that be Gowk Hill Inca's Mum ?Originally posted by inca'smum View Post
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We've had bees and butterflies for weeks. Great big bumble bees, black bees with red bottoms and orange bottoms and sripey bees. Butterflies are mostly peacocks and painted ladies but some orange tips too.
The house martins have arrived but no swallows yet.
Haven't heard a cuckoo yet. We never actually see them here.
When my husband was a student we spent a summer on the Isle of Mull. A cuckoo sat on the telephone wires above the house and cuckooed very loudly all day. It nearly drove me mad !
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Haven't seen any swallows/swifts or heard the cuckoo yet. Usually get one in the river valley, but no sign yet. Went walking on Tues evening and May blossom coming out in all the hedges, some flowers, pink buds everywhere. Blackthorn well out now and ditches dried up so no tadpoles/froglets to be seen.
Bees and butterflies doing well, and ladybirds are out.Comment
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Had a cabbage white in my tunnel two days ago - didn't last long I can tell you !!
Don't like cuckoos - big ugly and noisy - more of a sparrowhawk kind of guyRat
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