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The Mole | 19:39 UK time, Thursday, 28 May 2009

Just been speaking to the story-developers - the people who keep an eye on the webcams - and have got the lowdown on what you good people have been doing so as not to miss the chaffinches fledge.

We have:

  • people taking their laptops to the loo
  • people not taking their dogs for a walk
  • mum and daughter taking their laptops to the pub with them
  • people threatening to get up at 4:30 am if necessary
  • youngsters not revising for their GCSEs (very naughty!)
  • workers thinking they are going to get the sack for not doing any work
  • mums putting the kettle on as that always gets the goals scored
  • men stocking up on long term supplies including bottles of fizzy drink and crisps - now they just need to bring the toilet in


As one person said, it's just like Big Brother, only interesting!


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  • 1. At 8:44pm on 28 May 2009, jitterbug27 wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo about 100 metres from my house in Hook in East Yorkshire

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  • 2. At 8:51pm on 28 May 2009, angelLinpin wrote:

    I've been hearing a cuckoo since early May in the wood behind my house in Cross In Hand, East Sussex. It was calling as you were asking "have you heard a cuckoo"

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  • 3. At 8:52pm on 28 May 2009, HolmerHGreen wrote:

    I heard the first and only cuckoo so far this year on 17th May, around woodland at the back of my house, in Holmer Green, High Wycombe Bucks.

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  • 4. At 8:52pm on 28 May 2009, mini-mum57 wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo in my garden about 2 weeks ago in Acton, Suffolk.

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  • 5. At 8:52pm on 28 May 2009, ktpatH wrote:

    I heard the cuckoo in my garden on the 27/05/09 at 7.30pm in Goodnestone Canterbury Kent.

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  • 6. At 8:54pm on 28 May 2009, ACEPHONECHIC wrote:

    I heard and saw a Cuckoo on Southern Dartmoor on the 23rd May 2009,
    My husband Mike and I heard the Cuckoo first then saw it fly overhead calling then landing on one of the small trees near Haytor.

    We then heard a Cuckoo when walking our Dog Kiaya near Haacombe House Netherton Newton Abbot on Mon 25th May

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  • 7. At 8:55pm on 28 May 2009, hillarybingham wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo on the first weekend in May in Ovington, Hampshire. It is the only one I've heard this year.

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  • 8. At 8:55pm on 28 May 2009, nenecarpangler wrote:

    you can hear a cuckoo at ringstead island fishery northants
    usualy around first light april/may

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  • 9. At 8:58pm on 28 May 2009, darlinggillypie wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo on Tuesday 26th May at about 10.30am. I live in Rugeley in Staffordshire. My husband heard one on Monday 25th May. We live close to Cannock Chase.

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  • 10. At 9:00pm on 28 May 2009, BARNOWL wrote:

    We heard and saw a cuckoo at Lackford Lakes nr Bury st Edmunds Suffolk

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  • 11. At 9:01pm on 28 May 2009, Thefairlesley wrote:

    I have missed half the programme trying to find where to put that I heard a cuckoo on 25th May in Whitstable in Kent.

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  • 12. At 9:01pm on 28 May 2009, Vizsla1 wrote:

    I have been hearing a Cuckoo for about 3 weeks in the woods behind our house in Rogerstone, Newport, South Wales.

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  • 13. At 9:01pm on 28 May 2009, fantasticfuzzie wrote:

    Heard a cuckoo in the woods at the back of out garden last week just outside of leeds.

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  • 14. At 9:02pm on 28 May 2009, regalHippo wrote:

    I heard a Cuckoo in early May in Brandon in Suffolk.

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  • 15. At 9:02pm on 28 May 2009, havoc47 wrote:

    heard my first cuckoo in the last week of april
    heard more cuckoo's this year than for a long time i live in near bicester in oxfordshire

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  • 16. At 9:05pm on 28 May 2009, cuckoospringwatcher wrote:

    Heard cuckoo at approximately 2pm today, 28th May, at Wheatley, Doncaster, Yorkshire

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  • 17. At 9:05pm on 28 May 2009, lowe282 wrote:

    We heard a cuckoo on Whitbarrow Scar Cumbria May 14 2009

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  • 18. At 9:07pm on 28 May 2009, maisieemma wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo at graves park in sheffield at the beginning of may.

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  • 19. At 9:08pm on 28 May 2009, BARNOWL wrote:

    I HEARD AND SAW A CUCKOO AT LACKFORD LAKES nr BURY St EDMUNDS SUFFOLK ON 11 MAY 2009 . ALSO HEARD ONE IN NORWICH 23 APRIL.NEAR CEMETARY

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  • 20. At 9:08pm on 28 May 2009, annipannibike wrote:

    I heard my first cuckoo this year on May 3rd near my home at South Clifton near Newark and have hear several more since then within 10 miles or so of home.

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  • 21. At 9:09pm on 28 May 2009, teen1jewel wrote:

    I heard a Cuckoo about 14th May from our house which is in Burwarton Shropshire.

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  • 22. At 9:13pm on 28 May 2009, EnglishFolkfan wrote:

    Hi Paddy (Kates slip of the tongue!)
    The luxury of a loptop, a wildlife friendly secret garden and retirement means high tea outside under the gazebo watching Springwatch webcam chaffinches fledge whist my birds and bees feed all around ....ooh does that sound smug ..... sorry - just relishing the joy that is 3 weeks of Springwatch ;o)

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  • 23. At 9:13pm on 28 May 2009, marvellousbirdie wrote:

    I live in Cornwall. This year, same as last year, I have heard 5 cuckoos, always in their own patch of moorland. I have seen 3 this year - 2 males and one female. They have been back in the area since the end of April. Today, a male and female emerged from a hawthorn bush in front of me. The males are always on their favourite perches. Last year, in the same patch, I saw a large cuckoo chick being fed by two very tiny foster parents - unfortunately, I wasn't close enough to see what they were but I think they were warblers of some kind.

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  • 24. At 9:15pm on 28 May 2009, gentlemanBobWilliams wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo when walking the dog through fields in the village of Ockley in Surrey on 25th May 2009

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  • 25. At 9:17pm on 28 May 2009, brianmcnamara wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo on two occassions last week in Bellingdon, Buckinghamshire.
    Brian McNamara

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  • 26. At 9:24pm on 28 May 2009, emsysy wrote:

    My wife and I heard a cuckoo on 21st April 2009 at Pyrford, Surrey

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  • 27. At 9:26pm on 28 May 2009, fabannalou wrote:

    We heard a cuckoo on Sunday 24th May at 3.15 at Foulden in the Scottish Borders

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  • 28. At 9:26pm on 28 May 2009, PlodOnChris wrote:

    Cuckoo....Heard my first Cuckoo Tue 12 May 09 when walking the Munro Mountain Beinn Chabhair in the Loch Lomand and The Trossachs National Park Scotland. Heard my second Cuckoo to-day Thu 28 May 09 when walking the Munro Mountain Beinn Bhuidh'e in the same area.

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  • 29. At 9:28pm on 28 May 2009, sproutie67 wrote:

    I heard 2 cuckoos close to the Goytre Wharf section of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal on Saturday 16th May.

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  • 30. At 9:32pm on 28 May 2009, scorpiogracie wrote:

    we have heard a cuckoo this year from April and it is still very close to our house It sings everyday at various times. In May last year i saw the cuckoo 500 meters away from our house. Out skirts of Peterborough, Cambs.

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  • 31. At 9:38pm on 28 May 2009, armybloke wrote:

    Saw and heard 2 cuckoo at Swanwick Lakes OS Grid ref: SU507099 on 1 May 2009.

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  • 32. At 9:49pm on 28 May 2009, cuckoospotter wrote:

    I heard a cuckoo on 14th.May near Welwyn Garden city Herts.whilst on the golf course.

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  • 33. At 10:43pm on 28 May 2009, lgreyduskydolphins wrote:

    Hi,
    I don't exactly know what blogging is. I am not exactly computer literate.I do hope you get this message. I live in Cornwall on a farm in St. Merryn near the north coast. I heard the cuckoo about 2 weeks ago inour garden, it was just over my head in the leylandii trees that border our garden. We have an abundance of bird and wildlife around us. We have visits from badgers every night ,we put out peanuts for them. A couple of years ago we had a pipistrelle nursery in our roof. Magic!

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  • 34. At 11:04am on 01 Jun 2009, norrobl wrote:

    31/05/09
    Heard a cuckoo at 08:30 this morning at Salen Hotel,Ardnamurchan,Scotland

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  • 35. At 12:26pm on 01 Jun 2009, twinborisb wrote:

    Heard a Cuckoo at 10:30am yesterday in Sutton Park, West Midlands

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  • 36. At 9:10pm on 08 Jun 2009, PlodOnChris wrote:

    Hello Springwatch....whilst making my up Munro's Mountains Conival and Ben More Assynt in Scotland last week i saw and was able to photograph a Cuckoo sat on a large boulder at about 1200ft....could you tell me please what bird would be the host for the cuckoo to nest in being so high up in the the Mountains.....I was also very privalenged to see a Ptaragen with chicks at 3000ft on Munro Mountain Ben Klibreck a day later, I was also able to photograph the Ptaragen and watch the hen re-gather her chicks before moving off...a marvellous experience to see. I can 'post' the photographs if you give me the link.
    Kind regards
    Chris (PlodOnChris)

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