Cuckoo. Cuckoo

 

I heard my first cuckoo this afternoon.*  This is excellent.  They’re endangered** and for several years now I’ve been hearing them later and later and later in the season–and often when I’d finally hear one at all it would sound frail and doubtful.  This one today sounded ready to scam any number of mild-mannered dunnocks into raising young cuckoos.  When I was first over here I used to hear cuckoos while I was trying to convince myself to get out of bed in the morning*** and it was all part o