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I first suspected that there was an unusual bird living nearby around mid-June, when I started to hear a persistent tweeting which sounded like a baby bird wanting to be fed, but the sound was much louder and more relentless than you would normally expect from a garden bird. It would start at around 5am each morning, and would keep going on and off throughout the day and evening. Round about this time I noticed that the sunflower hearts in my large birdfeeder were disappearing unusually rapidly, and I had to keep filling it up daily. We heard the
noise regularly for 2 to 3 weeks. Finally, the mystery was solved
when my next-door neighbour mentioned to me that he had a baby
cuckoo living in his garden, which was being fed by a number of
sparrows. I realised that it must have been the cuckoo that was
making all the noise, and that my seeds had been disappearing
quickly because the sparrows had been shovelling them down the
cuckoo’s throat! By the second week of July the cuckoo became
more adventurous and it visited my garden a few times, before
disappearing completely a few days later. |
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