We have had none here for a few years. They used to fly from tree to tree. A lady in the Welsh hills told me she heard one give one cuckoo yesterday then nothing. They must still be flying in.
--- On Wed, 28/4/10, Brian on Harnser <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brian on Harnser <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Harnser Trip Report To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 28 April, 2010, 16:53 It happens that David Cragg formulated : > Ref the dawn chorus. We feed a lot of birds in winter and have enough trees > and bushes around to be counted as a forest in agri. terms. We notice, > approaching our place that the closer you get the more the birdsong. They > never stop in daylight. The first blackbird actually begins in the dark, the > rest join in and off they go all day. We notice the blackbirds and thrushes > do about 15 minutes each in the best places - then fly off to let the next > booking start singing. Sitting here writing this there is a blackbird > hammering away to a backround of tits, finches and the odd robin. The > pheasant seems to be losing his voice - as happens every year around this > time and the warblers and swallows seem to be running late as they haven't > arrived. Time for changeover - the blackbird outside this window flew off and > the reversing lorry one has flown in. I only heard my first cuckoo the day before yesterday at Radford Semele -- Brian traveling on Harnser http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
