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Post by farmersboy on Apr 15, 2008 6:37:23 GMT
You are so right Jen,never heard it once last year,and only once the year before.
You cuckoo? debatable ;D
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Post by Amo on Apr 15, 2008 6:43:37 GMT
The cuckoo's were early here last year, can't quite remember when, but there was a huge fuss about it in the pub. They were saying there were here early because they wouldn't like the summer, I guess they were right too.
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 15, 2008 11:36:50 GMT
Has the cuckoo been around Dutchy - I know every year I visit Holland I hear it - hardly ever hear it in the UK now I remember, much to the amusement of the Americans, and the Dutch guide, I was shreaking my head off when I heard it - Cuckoo Cuckoo I yelped - think they all thought I had gone cuckoo  Just pinging this up to the new page for Dutchy ;D |
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Post by Dutchy on Apr 16, 2008 8:24:27 GMT
;D
Nope.
But then where I live is not cuckoo land.
They prefer an area much more varied with more shrubs and more ditches with warblers breeding in the reeds.
There are cuckoo in the neigbouring village but I am not so much out there.
Besides cuckoo only sing when there is rain coming.
So to be honest I don't want to hear them right now ;D
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Post by madonplants on Apr 16, 2008 11:01:19 GMT
;D Nope. But then where I live is not cuckoo land. They prefer an area much more varied with more shrubs and more ditches with warblers breeding in the reeds. There are cuckoo in the neigbouring village but I am not so much out there. Besides cuckoo only sing when there is rain coming. So to be honest I don't want to hear them right now ;D Really, I've not heard that before or seen it tbh and I grew up with them!?  Is it the fact that it starts singing here in April and we all know about april showers? My wife's in Amsterdam atm, at an exhibition for her work. She went there yesterday and back tomorrow. How's the weather? |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 16, 2008 19:37:11 GMT
Isnt there a poem The Cuckoo comes in April, he lays his egg in May In June he sings a merry tune and in July he flies away  |
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Post by farmersboy on Apr 16, 2008 19:39:29 GMT
I know a similar one,see Garden Chat
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 17, 2008 5:14:10 GMT
Yours be the right one FB  |
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Post by farmersboy on Apr 17, 2008 7:07:18 GMT
I'm usually right,Jennifer ;D
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Post by Dutchy on Apr 17, 2008 7:25:34 GMT
Madon The weather is fab so your wife will have a good stay.
But by now you probably know that already.
About the area. We have mostly flat fields and hardly any birds nesting that the Cuckoo uses for hosting its young.
Out here reed warblers are usually the poor victim of having to raise a cuckoo baby.
And I still have not heard one sing.
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Post by madonplants on Apr 17, 2008 9:11:56 GMT
Madon The weather is fab so your wife will have a good stay. But by now you probably know that already. About the area. We have mostly flat fields and hardly any birds nesting that the Cuckoo uses for hosting its young. Out here reed warblers are usually the poor victim of having to raise a cuckoo baby. And I still have not heard one sing.Oh you poor thing! Where I grew up, they usually used dunnocks for their 'nesting', but I remember one year, it was a robin, most upsetting that was!  |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 17, 2008 17:59:37 GMT
Well I hadnt seen MOI birdies for ages and wondered if they had fled MOI box on MOI LAND - but no they are late risers - I saw them fluffing out their feathers about 8am gathering moss and stuff
I thought last night when it was lashing down with rain and blowing a gale that I hoped they were all snug and warm in MOI Birdbox on MOI LAND ;D
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 27, 2008 6:28:03 GMT
Well Moi Birds hadnt been seen for days - I have been watching at all times of day - and began to think they had moved on to somewhere else
But, this morning, around 7am I saw a parent fly in with grubs ;D
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 27, 2008 7:30:40 GMT
OH NO NO NO DISASTER Have just seen a Magpie on the box trying to poke his beak inside Surely they dont eat baby birds  |
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Post by farmersboy on Apr 27, 2008 8:00:16 GMT
I realy hope this is not the case,Jen,but afraid they do eat young birds.
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 27, 2008 8:48:35 GMT
Yes u r right I just googled them
Ooo it is a responsiblity have a birdy box
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Post by Amo on Apr 28, 2008 5:17:37 GMT
All the corvids will eat other baby birds Jenny. I'm waging war with a pair of Jackdaws trying to nest in our redundant chimney at the moment. I don't want them anywhere near my song birds!! |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Apr 28, 2008 6:42:52 GMT
I cant rest now I keep peeking out to see if any magpies about I saved a baby Magpie a year ago - it was being attacked by a cat - but then i couldnt have left it anyway - took it to a wildlife hospital and it survived - its prob come back |
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Post by JennyWrenn on May 2, 2008 15:07:24 GMT
This morning I noticed my statue that is on a plinth next to the bird box was lying on the ground, smashed - I think a cat had been trying to balance on it to get at the ickle birdies ;D
No sign of them yet but Mum & Dad still flitting around
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Post by Amo on May 2, 2008 18:36:02 GMT
WHHOOOO WHOOOO Heard our first Cuckoo today!! YAY!!!
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Post by Jasmine on May 2, 2008 18:56:22 GMT
'Our' woodpecker is busy in the woods behind our house - it drives my OH mad - I quite like him/her hammering away - even early in the morning!
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Post by Ruthie on May 2, 2008 19:02:56 GMT
We haven't heard a Cuckoo yet. Can't remember hearing one last year (though I was in Normandy last April and on our walks we had a Cuckoo calling incessantly). Earliest we've heard one here in Norfolk was 18th April one year (can't remember when) but we always used to bank on hearing them by St George's day. Nothing this year, I think they've abandoned ue............great news for the garden birds though.
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Post by JennyWrenn on May 3, 2008 6:42:44 GMT
I have a woodpecker in the wood opposite in fact he is rat tatting as I type this - the sound doesnt bother me at all no cuckoos here yet |
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Post by farmersboy on May 3, 2008 6:52:43 GMT
WHHOOOO WHOOOO Heard our first Cuckoo today!! YAY!!! Ive not heard one yet |
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Post by carolann on May 3, 2008 7:26:21 GMT
I have not heard a Cockoo around here for over 10 years +. Took a pic of our Lesser Spotted Woody  , it was in the garden eating the fat balls and it comes back each night to see what is left. Its the first year we have seen him in the garden but we hear him tapping away in the wood. |
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Post by JennyWrenn on May 3, 2008 7:52:27 GMT
Oh lucky you I thought they stayed in the woods - birdies are getting braver I think |
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Post by Jasmine on May 3, 2008 13:28:45 GMT
We very rarely see our woody in the garden - that is a super picture Carolann! |
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Post by Amo on May 4, 2008 6:42:20 GMT
Opened the curtains this morning and saw loads of house martins exploring the neighbours eaves. So they're back. I hope the pair come back to our nest too.
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Post by Ladygardener on May 4, 2008 10:43:19 GMT
Fab pic carolann52 how lucky you are to see such a great guy in your garden and well done for capturing him on camera.
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Post by Amo on May 4, 2008 11:06:48 GMT
I have not heard a Cockoo around here for over 10 years +. Took a pic of our Lesser Spotted Woody , it was in the garden eating the fat balls and it comes back each night to see what is left. Its the first year we have seen him in the garden but we hear him tapping away in the wood. Yes, sorry Carolanne! My mouse wheel went too fast past the pic!! Fab shot. ;D  |
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Is it the fact that it starts singing here in April and we all know about april showers?
