Brilliant Just shows how nature has its ups and downs. They do look as though they are doing well in Wales.
So pleased for you Dove. You knew just how many years ago you heard one and I had to guess. Probably guessed on the optimistic side too! So far today I haven't heard anything.
Just been sitting outside listening to a green woodpecker yaffling too, while a family of baby blue tits get taught how to help themselves to the contents of our bird feeders and a blackbird splashed me when having a dip in the birdbath - a very good day
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have them in the semi-wooded area behind where we live, have heard the calls, but cant see it/them. They have come here 2 years in a row now. Hopefully recovering well now.
I wait for them to call every year and have heard them the last 3 years in a row. One of them was going mental this weekend, to the point I was gonna shout "shut up", he liked the sound of his own voice echoing off the trees me thinks !
I could see him across the way, at the highest point in the tree shouting his head off.
It isn't only the cuckoo in short supply here. There's very few butterflies. A few Orange Tip mostly male, a few Green Veined Whites and a couple of Brimstones. The Valarian is in full bloom on the path to the car park, not so much as a Small Tortie, and it's been really hot weather the last few days. I'm usually getting nothing done but chasing them with my camera. There's always something to photograph in West Dorset . Now it's a thunderstorm with lightning flashes. At least I won't be watering plants tomorrow.
I haven't seen a hare either for some time but there's plenty of deer and yesterday I was leaning on a gate watching my dog snuffle about when two young foxes came trotting up the track in a wood above Toller Porcorum. They turned tail of course but they needn't have worried, Scout isn't the least bit likely to give chase to anything but a thrown ball or stick despite being an energetic collie.
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Heard first here in Carmarthen 13th April. 2014. We do hear them regular every year until they leave.
Just heard one a short way away from our garden - I'm a very happy Dove
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's good news. I heard it again today as well
In the sticks near Peterborough
Brilliant
Just shows how nature has its ups and downs. They do look as though they are doing well in Wales.
So pleased for you Dove. You knew just how many years ago you heard one and I had to guess. Probably guessed on the optimistic side too! So far today I haven't heard anything.
nut, I'm just hoping I'm as lucky as you
In the sticks near Peterborough
Just been sitting outside listening to a green woodpecker yaffling too, while a family of baby blue tits get taught how to help themselves to the contents of our bird feeders and a blackbird splashed me when having a dip in the birdbath - a very good day
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have them in the semi-wooded area behind where we live, have heard the calls, but cant see it/them. They have come here 2 years in a row now. Hopefully recovering well now.
Cuckoos alive and well in Moray in Scotland
I wait for them to call every year and have heard them the last 3 years in a row. One of them was going mental this weekend, to the point I was gonna shout "shut up", he liked the sound of his own voice echoing off the trees me thinks !
I could see him across the way, at the highest point in the tree shouting his head off.
It isn't only the cuckoo in short supply here. There's very few butterflies. A few Orange Tip mostly male, a few Green Veined Whites and a couple of Brimstones. The Valarian is in full bloom on the path to the car park, not so much as a Small Tortie, and it's been really hot weather the last few days. I'm usually getting nothing done but chasing them with my camera. There's always something to photograph in West Dorset
. Now it's a thunderstorm with lightning flashes. At least I won't be watering plants tomorrow.
I haven't seen a hare either for some time but there's plenty of deer and yesterday I was leaning on a gate watching my dog snuffle about when two young foxes came trotting up the track in a wood above Toller Porcorum. They turned tail of course but they needn't have worried, Scout isn't the least bit likely to give chase to anything but a thrown ball or stick despite being an energetic collie.