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Iguana
 


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Cuckoo & The Mods

Definition:
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.

This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk; since that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.

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As this particular Cuckoo has now left the nest as he found it, and flown home, can the mods remove Cuckoo please?

Diolch yn fawr
(Most of you mods seem to be Welsh, so I'm hoping that last part will influence your decision)

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Wher did the Cuckoo malarkie come from?
   
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A load of Censored about sparrowhawks as the young cuckoo counldn’t eat what the sparrowhawks brought to the nest to feed it on.
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No idea who put it there! But I think related to me staying in Uncle Ray's tent at Winter camp
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Ah, explains it. Thumbs Up
   
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Pelyma wrote:
A load of Censored about sparrowhawks as the young cuckoo counldn’t eat what the sparrowhawks brought to the nest to feed it on.


Please don't shout at me (Just the interweb), that was only there to explain my issue to the Mods Thumbs Up
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You can’t trust those bloody mods, they know nothing you know, absolutely nothing Laughing
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And........ yes I'm still a cuckoo Sad
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They are jealous of your new camping set up!
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Re: Cuckoo & The Mods

Iguana wrote:

As this particular Cuckoo has now left the nest as he found it, and flown home, can the mods remove Cuckoo please?

Diolch yn fawr
(Most of you mods seem to be Welsh, so I'm hoping that last part will influence your decision)

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Sorry but Mods can't ...it's a Martin thing, see mind butty Laughing
  
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Pelyma wrote:
A load of Censored about sparrowhawks as the young cuckoo counldn’t eat what the sparrowhawks brought to the nest to feed it on.


Think you misunderstood. The Cuckoo doesn't drop it's eggs in a sparrow hawk nest … the female LOOKS like one so the "victim" flies off while her eggs are replaced by the cuckoo, hence doesn't see them being replaced and happily sits on the new eggs when she returns.


And if Iggy IS a cuckoo, do they all drink the fire-water he brought to ice-fest ? Wouldn't be much egg-laying going on if they did as they'd all be falling out of trees.
  
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Martin wrote:
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And the cuckoo has gone!! Shocked Shocked
   
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2015 RR Sport Autobiography
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1992 Land Rover Defender Camper

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MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!) 
 
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Hardware17 wrote:
Pelyma wrote:
A load of Censored about sparrowhawks as the young cuckoo counldn’t eat what the sparrowhawks brought to the nest to feed it on.


Think you misunderstood. The Cuckoo doesn't drop it's eggs in a sparrow hawk nest … the female LOOKS like one so the "victim" flies off while her eggs are replaced by the cuckoo, hence doesn't see them being replaced and happily sits on the new eggs when she returns.


And if Iggy IS a cuckoo, do they all drink the fire-water he brought to ice-fest ? Wouldn't be much egg-laying going on if they did as they'd all be falling out of trees.


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