Cuckoos

[thugulike]

I heard a cuckoo today. Surely it's way too early?

[BuckyRogers]

I think it's a bit early, jajaj

[hereIam]

Sorry to sound patronising cos I don't mean to be, but could it have been a dove or a pigeon ? I know some people have been fooled by those birds before? It is too early really.

[thugulike]

We are inundated with collared doves but I know the difference. I'll keep listening. We have no houses around and it sounded like a cuckoo to me.

[sunny-dave]

They're still on their winter holiday in The Congo

https://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking

[paddywak]

I haven't heard a cuckoo in years, let alone this early.

[Old_Geezer]

You must be cuckoo !
Have your neighbours celebrated Christmas in Switzerland ?

[wildwood]

I just had a couple fly past at 200mph. Their boom box rattled the windows, eventhough I'm a fair way from the street.

[thugulike]

I think I may have found the solution. We have a large number of blackbirds in the front garden and I suspect one of them is mimicking a cuckoo. We had one in the garden in Cumbria before we moved that could mimic my mobile phone ringtone. Nearly drove me mad

[shoota]

Cloody buckoos, wake me up, pesky things...

[Tilly2]

Shoota, you seem to be a bit disgruntled this evening. What's the matter?

[shoota]

Disgruntle...
Datgruntle...
All the riddy gruntles...

[Prudie]

It's starlings that mimic rather than blackbirds. I once had one that mimicked me calling my cat in all the time. Even the neighbours thought it was me..

[Tilly2]

Starlings are the birds that mimic. They are brilliant at it.

[shoota]

Starlings are the birds that mimic. They are brilliant at it.

[Tilly2]

I prefer you disgruntled.

[shoota]

But 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' is cheering me up. (BBC 1)
Pure, brilliant stupidity...

[Tilly2]

Football on here. :-(

[shoota]

Am now lessgruntled, a must for 'catch up'.

[Tilly2]

I'll have a word, thanks.

Glad the gruntles have disappeared.

[gness]

Trying to get tickets for that in London,shoota. X