Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Not sure a Hearing Aid could do me any good, to be honest with ye mate. I have tinatus in my right ear so bad that I'm effectively deaf on that side ~ Yeah. I'm a real fun conversationalist for drivers ~ and I really don't know what's up with the left, that I can't hear to many birds now. Weird though. First spotted it when I was watching a bird ID video with the bitch from hell and I was simply not hearing the calls being alluded to and described in the commentary. Anyway, all pretty much academic now. I'm out of the active Birding game so ... Need new reading glasses though. My fasination is photographing Moths and then identifying them? My eyes are now so out of synch with my glasses I can barely read their names; Let alone discern finer points of patterning Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lurcherbitch Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 I heard my first cuckoo yesterday, unfortunatly it was on the phone as a guy was asking me about a dog............but i still heard it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,788 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 its a good time to be sneaking its eggs into the other birds nests as first light often finds the birds nipping off their nests for a feed. Very unlikely Juckler. Most, if not all female Cuckoos will lay in the afternoon. Other birds will be laying in the morning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
highlander 0 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 The cuckoo appeared hear on monday. Regards highlander. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
elisderyn 496 Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 Havent heard one yet but last yr I was fishing for carp in a nice secluded pond & a cuckoo landed on my rod & sat there for a while as I was holding it............unbelievable ........ My first reaction was that it was a sparrowhawk at a glance & then realised it was a cuckoo.....wish I could have got a photo but my hands were full...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 F*cks Me!!! WHAT an experiance That must have been! I'll never forget my own first actual sighting of one. My 'Tick' for Cuckoo. Farlington Marshes, Hampshire. The Warden told me it was over in the north eastern corner and off handedly said that, if I went over there, I'd see it. " He's about. ", he said. I went to the sea bank and stood about, feeling quite desperate and dejected. I couldn't believe I'd ever get a look at so 'elusive' a bird That easily. Within five minutes the Beast came swooping past a break in the bushes! My God! Aren't they a sight, close up?! Like ye say; Gray and barred. Just like a Sparrow Hawk. And that mad, staring, yellow eye! Amazing looking birds! Hey, speaking of Cuckoo's; Anyone else seen a Great Spotted Cuckoo? Ticked mine at Titchfield. Sat there in a bramble bush. Had the 'scope right on it! What a f*cking monster! Like a bloody Macaw it was! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mad al 146 Posted May 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 Only ever had sight of the "commoner" myself DS Al Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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