Comments on: We can Fly!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/ The latest reports of world wide rock & ice climbing (and other extreme) fun and adventure! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8644 Pete Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:36 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8644 OK, looking at the images on this site: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Animal%20Behavior/driving_parents_cuckoo.htm , confirm it too I think. Phew. I was getting worried about warbler-murder! Although the cuckoo is apparently quite threatened in the UK; a lack of habitat for their favoured hosts, reed warblers, means a lack of habitat for cuckoo chicks... OK, looking at the images on this site:
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Animal%20Behavior/driving_parents_cuckoo.htm , confirm it too I think. Phew. I was getting worried about warbler-murder! Although the cuckoo is apparently quite threatened in the UK; a lack of habitat for their favoured hosts, reed warblers, means a lack of habitat for cuckoo chicks…

]]> By: Ian http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8643 Ian Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:24:31 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8643 No.... :shock: :shock: it can't be a cuckoo.. they only lay 1 egg in a nest. There's 4 here, and they're all the same!! [Ed. last picture above added 9/7. ] No…. :shock: :shock: it can’t be a cuckoo.. they only lay 1 egg in a nest. There’s 4 here, and they’re all the same!!

[Ed. last picture above added 9/7. ]

]]> By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8642 Pete Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:26:31 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8642 Bloody hell, I think you are right! :shock: Warblers are one of the cuckoo's favourite targets too... Ian, did you know, was this a wind-up? :?: Bloody hell, I think you are right! :shock: Warblers are one of the cuckoo’s favourite targets too…

Ian, did you know, was this a wind-up? :?:

]]> By: Paul T http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8640 Paul T Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:53:39 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8640 Are you sure that Warbler chick is really a Warbler? It looks like a Cuckoo to me! Are you sure that Warbler chick is really a Warbler? It looks like a Cuckoo to me!

]]> By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8624 Pete Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:30:29 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8624 That picture of the warbler is great Ian! :mrgreen: That picture of the warbler is great Ian! :mrgreen:

]]> By: Anna http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/we-can-fly/#comment-8623 Anna Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:01:36 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=6000#comment-8623 Ian has turned into such a twitcher that he has not blogged our weekend ramble with its ace views, or our horticultural updates, only ornithology... Ian has turned into such a twitcher that he has not blogged our weekend ramble with its ace views, or our horticultural updates, only ornithology…

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