today I was in the garden and something caught my eye, it was a cuckoo in the garden, I watched her fly over my hedge. I then noticed something in my buckthorn bush and went to investigate. This bush is about 10m high, and up in the top of it looked like a walnut but on closer investigation it appears to be a snail, about 9 m up the trunk.
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Well spotted, Can. I've seen snails on the house wall outside the upstairs windows. Peeping snails.
We often see snails high up when it's hot in the summer
Never seen a cuckoo, though we hear them.
(20-05-2023, 01:04 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: [ -> ]We often see snails high up when it's hot in the summer
Never seen a cuckoo, though we hear them.
Female cuckoo looks like a long tall thin thrush, typically it’s the males that have the colour similar to a wood pigeon slightly darker, difficult to spot and differentiate with swallows and swifts at this time.
I think cuckoo’s look very similar to sparrowhawks in flight. Very bird of prey shape. See them all the time during the short breeding season here each year. 3 nearly took my head off last week. To busy squabbling to notice me.