cuckoo

[caddyman]

Now the cuckoo is on the endangered list as the The Telegraph reports.

The cuckoo, which lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, migrates to Britain every summer. Numbers have fallen by 37 per cent in the last 15 years to around 20,000. The drastic fall in numbers has been blamed on loss of habitat both in Britain and sub-Saharan Africa where water and food is drying out. The decline in other species also means it is difficult for the bird to find other nests to lay in.

Sumer is ycomen in,
Loude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed,
And springth the wode now.
Sing cuckou!

Ewe bleteth after lamb,
Loweth after calve cow,
Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou,
Wel singest thou cuckou:
Ne swik thou never now!

Soon to 'swik' after all?

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Poor little buggers. The call of a cuckoo takes me back to my childhood, when we'd often go to visit my Dad's cousins out at High Ercall in Shropshire and, walking along the lane to or from the bus stop, we might hear one from the woods nearby.