Here is the finished illustration from the previous time lapse… I do love the way they seem to appear put of nowhere and take on a personality all of their own… they seem to create themselves I think 😊
From This months free ebook
About the Cuckoo
“Another Redlisted bird and a migrant breeder in the UK. It is 33 cm in
Length with a Wingspan of 58 cm the Male is larger than the female.
Females lay their eggs in the nest of the species which raised them
which might be a Dunnock, Reed Warbler and Meadow Pipit… A single
female may visit up to 50 nests each year.
The first migrants to arrive might be here by the 4th April most years
our local Cuckoo returns on the 21st April or very close to it.
The maximum age from ringing is 6 years 11 months 2 days (set in
1983) however I have been hearing the Cuckoo return for the past 11
years so maybe it has been a sucession of Cuckoos?
Until rececntly very little has been know about the migration of the
Cuckoo but the BTO have been running a tagging project since 2011.
You can read more about it on their website @btobirds ”
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