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16-04-2006, 11:39 AM
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 Cuckoo! Just heard (and seen) the first cuckoo of Spring (edit - 2006) - according to our older neighbours it comes through this week (15th - 19th April) every year! 
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16-04-2006, 01:32 PM
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| I saw a few first brave swifts/swallows/martins the other day Couldn't really see what they were as I was driving!
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16-04-2006, 03:13 PM
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| Yes I saw our first hirundine the day before.
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16-04-2006, 09:40 PM
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| I saw my first bee of the year today at the allotments.
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16-04-2006, 09:53 PM
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| I saw my first butterfly today whilst out walking the dog. We've had bumble bees flying around for the past week, unfortuentely none of them have taken up residence in our bee box, but I think we put it out too late this year! damn! At the beginning of April I saw a woodpecker in the woods - it's the first time I've seen one as I've only heard them before. I was able to get quite close as well - it was amazing to see! I love this time of year!
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17-04-2006, 03:47 PM
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20-04-2006, 01:55 AM
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| Things with wings... I saw my first butterfly last weekend and have seen a few bumble bees on the plot over the last two weeks. Also saw a sparrow hawk getting mobbed by a crow whilst trying to catch a pigeon! Your cuckoo sighting is pretty impressive though, you hardly hear them anymore, let alone SEE them - lucky you!
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21-04-2006, 12:13 PM
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| First willow warbler and bee in the garden day before yesterday (also heard and saw a pair of greenshank), also first swallow and house martin yesterday. Hooray for Spring! About time as well. Still waiting for spotted flycatcher and cuckoo, they're the last ones to arrive. |
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19-04-2007, 03:15 PM
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| Well another year passes and I've just heard my first cuckoo of the year today! Also just seen our first 3 or 4 swallows, one sitting on our tv aerial 'twittering' away. Probably won't be long now until our house martins turn up again.
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19-04-2007, 03:27 PM
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| Just seen my first swarm of honey bees.....I want, I want - but don't yet have a hive! gutted they are in such an easy place here at work! right place wrong time...was even thinking of getting hive this weekend. gutted, gutted, gutted, gutted sob,sob,sob, bu99er! sorry had to get it of my chest! |
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19-04-2007, 03:46 PM
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| Can't you get someone to get them for you? Why can't you get them now? You've reminded me I also saw a swarm of bees (I think) last year, never seen one before.
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19-04-2007, 05:15 PM
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| couple of weeks back we had a lovely bird (ring collared dove) build a flimsy nest in a stupid place halfway up our garden. within easy reach of hounds, cat and other wildlife. She laid a load of eggs, and we watched what we thought was a cuckoo do its utmost to get her to move off of it. she abandoned. sad but a relief really - I had vision of having to section off part of the garden after the hatch in order to give the guys a chance. lots of butterflies in the garden - white ones with little orange tips on their wings. no idea what they are called but they are very pretty. |
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19-04-2007, 05:20 PM
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| Believe it or not Laura g they are called 'orange tips'. I saw my first of the season on Saturday. Flum
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20-04-2007, 05:10 PM
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| They are relatively huge - when you consider the size of the birds whose nests they ravage!
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20-04-2007, 05:53 PM
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20-04-2007, 06:00 PM
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| We've had bees and butterflies for weeks. Great big bumble bees, black bees with red bottoms and orange bottoms and sripey bees. Butterflies are mostly peacocks and painted ladies but some orange tips too. The house martins have arrived but no swallows yet. Haven't heard a cuckoo yet. We never actually see them here. When my husband was a student we spent a summer on the Isle of Mull. A cuckoo sat on the telephone wires above the house and cuckooed very loudly all day. It nearly drove me mad !
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20-04-2007, 06:32 PM
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| Haven't seen any swallows/swifts or heard the cuckoo yet. Usually get one in the river valley, but no sign yet. Went walking on Tues evening and May blossom coming out in all the hedges, some flowers, pink buds everywhere. Blackthorn well out now and ditches dried up so no tadpoles/froglets to be seen. Bees and butterflies doing well, and ladybirds are out.
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20-04-2007, 10:22 PM
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| Had a cabbage white in my tunnel two days ago - didn't last long I can tell you !! Don't like cuckoos - big ugly and noisy - more of a sparrowhawk kind of guy
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