Thursday, 10 April 2014
First Cuckoo
We heard our first cuckoo yesterday in Windfall Wood Common near Lurgashall. It called for a minute or so, quite near, but we did not see it. The BTO is reporting its nearest tracked cuckoo location as the middle of the Sahara, so this one is well ahead of them. Birds of Sussex gives the earliest ever arrival as 15 March (1936), but that was exceptional. However, the average first arrival date has gradually got earlier. 1962-71 it was 11 April; by 2002-11, it was 2 April. So this date of 9 April is not so unusual by current standards.
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