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mocko
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 Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:14 pm Post subject: cuckoo |
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| First cuckoo this year on crymlyn bog next to my small holding exactly a year to the day. |
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andy pearce
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Very nice...looking forward to hearing one. Many years ago I followed one which was wall hopping and calling about fifty metres in front of me in mid Wales for about ten minutes, a very good sight I have never repeated.
Last Saturday I was working at a farm in the South Downs near Brighton, it rained in the morning but when that cleared my first House Martins and Swallows steamed in and did a fantastic aerobatic display....they then left presumably up north. Very uplifting. Looking forward to the Swifts on May 1st.
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