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Cuckoo

In Kent or Cumbria?

Here abouts being very close to a vast marshy area heard the first on 17th April. Plenty of storks around too and for the first time on my usual beat a small flock of peewits, lapwings.
 
Over here masses of red wing black birds and grackles have arrived. The sand hill cranes have also started arriving.
Had to look up your lapwing , very nice looking bird.
 
Common Grackle, the feathers around the head and neck have a metallic like blue feathers . Probably the same as in Texas. Their range is east of the Rockies in the US and into a good portion of Canada.
 
In the ten years I lived in Kirkby, I had a blackbird nest for a few years, a robin occasionally and the odd magpie. A heron once on the roof of my workshop. The rest were pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons.
Here, there is a wonderful array of airborne wildlife. I'm no twitcher, but I have the Merlin app on my phone. As well as sparrows and housemartins nesting in the eaves, we have turtle doves, blackbirds, little owls, houp-houps, chaffinch, various tits, buzzards, sparrow-hawks, heron, blackcap, treecreeper, song thrush, mistle thrush, woodpecker, kestrel, thick-knee and a melodious warbler, whatever that is. For all I know, ther are more.
It's lovely, actually.
Cuckoo was here a few weeks ago.
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Yes we have a pigeon problem also, last counted 60 plus. Luckily the Merlin and hawks somewhat control the numbers. My biggest issue is the amount of dropping they deposit on our deck and porch. Doesn't help that the missus feeds them, I can't win that argument.
 
here the pigeons steal the seeds that are supposed to be for small birds, they're crafty buggers and have worked out that they can eat the leftovers that they drop onto the grass
 
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The swallows have departed for warmer mid Africa.
The Olive Thrush(s) are now here very active after all the rain.
Lots of earth worms and tree berries for food.
 
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