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08-02-2009, 08:38 AM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
No, you're not the only oddball to do that, Fauna! Most nights when I let the dog out for it's last visit before bedtime the owl in me comes out to play. The dove call is OK too but I stuggle with the pitch of the cuckoo sometimes. |
08-02-2009, 08:45 AM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
I see what you mean there John...and Woodman i'm gald i'm not he only one  |
08-02-2009, 12:47 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
I tend to imitate the call of the local chavs, scallywags and oiks....when they come investigating i tempt them into my poison tipped pungee stick trap!...splendid! 
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08-02-2009, 12:53 PM
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What does a chav call sound like?? |
08-02-2009, 01:33 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
I did the same this morning, woke up with a 'oh my god it's a cuckoo  flew to window collared dove on ground feeder  Sounded exactly the same and I hear cuckoos a lot. 
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08-02-2009, 01:37 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  More likely to be a collared dove they get mistaken every year for Cuckoo's 
Early in the season.. | Just what I was thinking. My daughter said she'd heard one a week or so ago. I informed her that it was likely to be a Collared Dove. I have seen and heard a Cuckoo though and once you've heard the real thing there's no mistaking it. Collared Doves are very good at imitating it.
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08-02-2009, 01:38 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter I tend to imitate the call of the local chavs, scallywags and oiks....when they come investigating i tempt them into my poison tipped pungee stick trap!...splendid! | Excellent idea Dan
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08-02-2009, 07:47 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
I have just been going through my old birding journals as far back as 1975, the earliest I saw a cuckoo was April 7th, it was sighted on the Downs banks at Barlaston in the Staffordshire area, the year was 1981. I did have photography equipment with me (Ricoh KR10/Sigma 600mm mirror lens) but unfortunately I couldn't get the binoculars down and the camera up quick enough.With this area being almost the middle of our Country, it could have been sighted somewhere else earlier than this. Went back to the same area on several occasions over the following weeks, hearing it on 2 occasions but never seeing it. |
08-02-2009, 08:31 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
I have just checked my records and I definitely heard one in the middle of the Wyre Forest, near Bewdley, Worcs on 18/03/2003.
I had forgotten all about that but now I recall it I remember being almost under it but just could not find it. It took off in the wrong direction, still calling but was never located. I have recorded it on my data base as heard only.
Prior to that the earliest dates are between April 22nd to the 27th, all at the Wyre Forest with the exception of one at Winterton Dunes, Norfolk on 23/04/2006.
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08-02-2009, 08:43 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckoo in February!
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Originally Posted by John I have just checked my records and I definitely heard one in the middle of the Wyre Forest, near Bewdley, Worcs on 18/03/2003.
I had forgotten all about that but now I recall it I remember being almost under it but just could not find it. It took off in the wrong direction, still calling but was never located. I have recorded it on my data base as heard only.
Prior to that the earliest dates are between April 22nd to the 27th, all at the Wyre Forest with the exception of one at Winterton Dunes, Norfolk on 23/04/2006.
John | I've always heard them in the Wyre Forest, usually in april | | | |
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