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07-11-2009, 03:42 PM
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| | | Cuckooooooo.....???
Now I realise its November and cuckoo's leave July(ish), but Ive just been visiting my dad in Crowborough & sure I heard one, several times in fact.... (either that or someone has a very loud clock!!). Any ideas or am I going a bit mad...????  |
07-11-2009, 03:47 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckooooooo.....???
Hi Daisy,
Collared dove is the most likely as they are always getting mistaken for Cuckoo's.
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07-11-2009, 03:47 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckooooooo.....???
Probably a Collared Dove. You'd be surprised how often that gets mistaken for Cuckoo.
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07-11-2009, 04:15 PM
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Yes agree a Collared Dove is a lot more plausible  |
07-11-2009, 04:37 PM
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Yep probably a Collared Dove
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07-11-2009, 06:56 PM
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where do the cuckoos go??? |
07-11-2009, 06:58 PM
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They spend the winter in Africa |
07-11-2009, 07:41 PM
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Where i was working last year at the time the Cuckoo's arrived, according to one person who was working on the outside of the house, he saw three of them all together land in one particular tree just a few yards away from the house, maybe they fly together in small flocks as Swallows do.
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07-11-2009, 09:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daisychain  Now I realise its November and cuckoo's leave July(ish), but Ive just been visiting my dad in Crowborough & sure I heard one, several times in fact.... (either that or someone has a very loud clock!!). Any ideas or am I going a bit mad...???? | Sorry Daisy Chain but they are all right with Collared Dove. - Better luck in April next year.
3 on my local patch this year... |
08-11-2009, 08:36 AM
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| | | Re: Cuckooooooo.....???
Im no expert but we have so many doves where we live & Im sure it wasn't a dove call. Someone else said wood pigeon but once again, I definately know what they sound like. Its a mystery (& definately sounded like a cuckoo!!). Oh well, shame I was the only one to hear it...., (maybe I am going bonkers ha ha) |
08-11-2009, 11:23 AM
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| | | Re: Cuckooooooo.....???
This one is a mystery as cuckoo,s sound nothing like wood pigeons or collard doves,even a novice can tell the unmistakable sound a cuckoo makes,all I can think of is that it was mistaken identity |
08-11-2009, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by shaun a This one is a mystery as cuckoo,s sound nothing like wood pigeons or collard doves,even a novice can tell the unmistakable sound a cuckoo makes,all I can think of is that it was mistaken identity | Sorry, but they do sound like collard doves..
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08-11-2009, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Daisychain Im no expert but we have so many doves where we live & Im sure it wasn't a dove call. Someone else said wood pigeon but once again, I definately know what they sound like. Its a mystery (& definately sounded like a cuckoo!!). Oh well, shame I was the only one to hear it...., (maybe I am going bonkers ha ha) | Perhaps some local wind-up merchant was playing a recording of a Cuckoo to confuse local birders?
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08-11-2009, 11:52 AM
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Yes I think Collared dove with this one too,which is more of a woo hoo hoo,woo hoo hoo than a cuckoo's erm..cuckoo call. |
08-11-2009, 12:08 PM
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From a distance one part of a Collared Dove call can sound very like "cuck-oo" - it fools quite a few folk in early spring!
Sorry, but there is no way it's going to have been a real Cuckoo this late in the year. Of course, there's the outside possibility of a small child with one of wooden those call-toy thingies they sell at RSPB and WWT shops....! 
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08-11-2009, 12:09 PM
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Whilst their actual calls are very different they do have the same sort of tone/pitch (if that's the right phrase to use) Mind you I say that - I have no musical sense at all!!  |
08-11-2009, 12:36 PM
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Yes ,the Collins Bird Guide describes it as follows:"Song a trisyllabic coo,repeated a few times,2nd syllable drawn out and stressed and 3rd lower,"doo-doooo- do",somewhat Cuckoo-like at a distance."hth |
08-11-2009, 02:31 PM
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And somebody borrowed the "Cuckoo" flute to practise the part for the Spring Symphony!!!! (Just joking.) |
08-11-2009, 03:28 PM
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It is easier than you think to mistake a Collared Dove for one, I know because I have in the past  , mind you it doesn't help that I have never heard a wild cuckoo before.
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08-11-2009, 03:29 PM
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I've mentioned before that my German wife calls them 'coo cucks'!
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08-11-2009, 04:11 PM
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Well Im off to get my hearing tested..... |
08-11-2009, 06:13 PM
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This reminds me of a poem about a cuckoo clock that I heard a long time ago; it ended something like "And then he oood before he cucked!" |
08-11-2009, 06:55 PM
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| | | Re: Cuckooooooo.....???
I'm sorry but this may cause some debate but how a collard dove and a cuckoo sound remotely similar is beyond me as a cuckoo near by sounds like nothing else but a cuckoo and from a distance they sound like a cuckoo.so where any other bird comes into it is beyond me,as I said it must be mistaken I.D if not give me a pint of what your drinking, then maybe I can make a bluetit sound like a Tawny owl |
08-11-2009, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by shaun a This one is a mystery as cuckoo,s sound nothing like wood pigeons or collard doves,even a novice can tell the unmistakable sound a cuckoo makes,all I can think of is that it was mistaken identity | Codswallop!!! |
08-11-2009, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by simon taylor codswallop!!! | pint please | | | |
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