Hurray! Heard two cuckoos yesterday morning at dawn, and one today. They've decreased in numbers by about 50% in the last ten years, and ornithologists don't know why. The one this morning sounded very close to our house, but even though I ran out in my dressing gown, I couldn't catch a glimpse of it. (Neighbours are quite accustomed to the mad woman next door creeping around inappropriately clad, breaking up cat-fights or looking for birds.) A number of Norfolk cuckoos were ringed recently and tracked on their migration to Africa. Amazingly, they took widely different routes, but ended up in Congo within five miles of eachother!