A QUICK CUCKOO

A quick early morning visit by a female Klaas's Cuckoo to the wild olive outside my study window was the highlight of my day yesterday.  I often hear the cuckoo's call, but seldom see it as it moves furtively through the trees.

William Wordsworth described the same cuckoo behaviour in his poem, To the Cuckoo:

" O blithe New-comer!  I have heard,

   I hear thee and rejoice;

   O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,

   Or but a wandering Voice?"

OJ