First cuckoo?
I heard my first cuckoo this morning.
Now I have to keep my eyes peeled as each year they fly across the field behind my cottage as though they heading towards a regular egg laying area. I was very surprised when I saw my first one, cucking as it flew, so much bigger a bird than I expected.
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The cuckoo comes in May
He stays a day
Then flies away
I haven't heard one (in Hampshire) for a few years and didn't hear one last year (in Devon).
Have heard further cuckoos almost every day since hearing my first but they are much further away.
Hoopoes are rare annual, visitors to our shores and I believe they score high on twitchers "birds to be seen" list.