There is obviously a link of some kind between rainbows and cuckoos

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goldstone

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• May 28, 2014

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I have heard the cuckoo a good many times this spring (well maybe one cuckoo many times; or possibly many different cuckoos once) .... anyway why is it that the cuckoo's song is always in the distance? I have never ever heard a cuckoo close by.

Bit like trying to find the end of a rainbow ....

 

Albumen

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• May 28, 2014

• #2

Well unless you're up a tree in the country you're not going to be near it.

 

Gullflyinghigh

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• May 28, 2014

• #3

Albumen said:

Well unless you're up a tree in the country you're not going to be near it.

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In his defence he never said he wasn't up a tree in the country...

 

spongy

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• May 28, 2014

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Because their call travels a long way and is quite soft as a sound, kind of like whale calls, same as woodpeckers, their pecking always sound far away but could be quite close.

That's what I think anyway.

 

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Raleigh Chopper

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• May 28, 2014

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Funny this has come up I have been hearing loads of Cuckoos lately when I visit my nan, but only at a quarter past, half past, a quarter to and on the hour.
I know its a strange bird but is this normal Cuckoo behaviour.

 

Dan Aitch

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I often hear cranes in Central London.

 

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Raleigh Chopper

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• May 28, 2014

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Dan Aitch said:

I often hear cranes in Central London.

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Cue some Tits gags coming right up

 

Pevenseagull

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Jul 20, 2003

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• May 29, 2014

• #8

probably starlings, they've been known to do a good cover version of a cuckoo.







actually, in hindsight, that is a ridiculous suggestion




maybe a wood pigeon?



or maybe even a cuckoo!!!

 

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Buzzer

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• May 29, 2014

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How many bears could Bear Grylls grill if Bear Grylls could grill bears?

 

Baldseagull

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• May 29, 2014

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Raleigh Chopper said:

Funny this has come up I have been hearing loads of Cuckoos lately when I visit my nan, but only at a quarter past, half past, a quarter to and on the hour.
I know its a strange bird but is this normal Cuckoo behaviour.

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Normal behaviour for a Swiss Cuckoo.

 

KZNSeagull

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• May 29, 2014

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Must be shy. His South African cousin, the Red-Breasted Cuckoo, sits outside my bedroom window and starts cuckooing at 4am in the summer. Noisy swine.

 

Bevendean Hillbilly

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• May 29, 2014

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No wonder he's singing... If I was cuckoos dad I'd be thinking about DNA testing. It's a good job for cuckoo that birds ( that's flying birds) are thick.