Cuckoo Hunt

16:20 – 17:50

After a text from B.S. this morning about a Cuckoo seen at Ogden I was hoping to get to see it.

A  busy shopping day interrupted proceedings but Sue dropped me at Ogden “on her way to Tesco Queensbury” late afternoon.

It was very bad timing, as soon as I set off the drizzle came, bringing poor visibility.

It became very, very wet ;so after a quick circuit of the water with no sign of Cuckoo, I headed off home via Perseverance Road (I wanted to check on Cuckoo on Taylor Lane).

I didn’t realise what a Rat-run Perseverance Road is, at rush hour, and with visibility down to 100 yds on the tops, I had to keep watching to make sure that the speeding traffic didn’t wipe me out.

I soon realised that there was only one Cuckoo up here – ME.

Birds:-

Willow Warbler, Small Gulls, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Canada Geese, Mallard.

Joke:

Johnny was working in France and every morning he phones his brother, Jimmy to see how things are.

Johnny: How are things, Jimmy?

Jimmy: The cat’s dead.

Johnny: Oh how thoughtless of you to tell me like that.

I loved that cat.

You could have broken the news a lot better that that!

Jimmy: Sorry – but how do you mean broken the news better?

Johnny: Well on Monday when I phoned up you could have said

“The Cat’s on the roof”

On Tuesday: The cat’s still on the roof but we are giving it food.

On Wednesday: The cat’s still on the roof, we are thinking of phoning the Fire Brigade

On Thursday:  The fireman came, went up on the roof – the cat panicked, lost it’s footing and fell.

Unfortunately the cat did not survive the fall.

Jimmy: Oh – I get it. I’ll remember that for future.

A month goes by with nothing of interest happening, then Johnny phones up one 

Monday morning:-

Johnny: How are things, Jimmy?

Jimmy: “Your Mother’s on the roof”