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Obsessive cuckoo

Philomelos · 2014-05-12 09:27:59

I was in the Blue Stack Mountains in Donegal last week and heard my first cuckoo of the year. It was unusually repetitive: calling on one occasion 40 times in a row, with a gap of less than 2 seconds between each call, and a couple of other runs of 30+. I have heard cuckoos repeat themselves two or three times, but never…

12-05-2014 9:27am

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I was in the Blue Stack Mountains in Donegal last week and heard my first cuckoo of the year. It was unusually repetitive: calling on one occasion 40 times in a row, with a gap of less than 2 seconds between each call, and a couple of other runs of 30+. I have heard cuckoos repeat themselves two or three times, but never this often or obsessively. Anyone else heard this?

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#2 12-05-2014 2:49pm

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It is not at all unusual for a cuckoo to call almost continuously during the breeding season.

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#3 12-05-2014 2:51pm

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Obsessive Cuckoo Disorder ?

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#4 13-05-2014 10:39am

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Have 2 on different parts of the mountains up from me. (Or is it an echo?) They both go at it in the mornings but are polite enough for each one to take a turn. Around 30 secs each turn. Then this morning one flew overhead heading out into the valley.

It has a very soft flowing flight compared to the usual frantic flapping. First I have seen since I was a boy in the 60's.

Made my day.

TT

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