if you think im losing the plot ,going Cuckoo so to speak .......... well you may be slightly right as thats exactly my problem ...Cuckoo's , usually by this time of the year i would of heard at least one ,this year not one not even a slightest murmur or should i say cuckoo,not even sight of one ,we usually have them here .................. so where the hell are they ...............

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THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

Most of them seem to head straight up to the Highlands nowdays.I expect to hear them everyday when I'm up in Fortwilliam next week.

Jim

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all down here from the sounds of it...........

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its very strange ,ive heard them every year, since a kid ,and it seems very strange not to be hearing them and seeing them flitting across the skyline ....

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

Cuckoos are in decline and the bird is now on the Red List as endangered. The vast majority are apparently in the southern and mid part of the country. So this might explain why there are none in Yorkshire.

Scotland is full of them.Saw 7 last year on 1 telephone wire in early June.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Heard one at High Newton in cumbria yesterday.

Probably only heard half a dozen cuckoos down this way in the last twenty five years.

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Haven't heard a cuckoo yet, but there is a bird, close to me that makes the noise of a Trim phone, anyone old enough to remember those.
This bird must be going on 30 years old to have mimicked that ring tone.
This is in a country village as well, not suburbia.
Bruce just go to your back door and shout, then you will have heard the biggest cuckoo in Yorkshire.
S.

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Heard my first cuckoo today - still some left in Caithness. Enough to drive me mad at 5 o'clock in the morning, but they noticably dropped in numbers last year.