Nocturnal Cuckoo

[brian fleming <>]

Yesterday, Friday 28 October 2005, we heard a Fantailed Cuckoo calling 
at 2 a.m.  It remained audibleoff and on in daylight hours until about 
11 a.m. when I spotted it in the top of a dead tree - whereupon it 
promptly flew off, but was heard from a neighbour's garden.  I wonder if 
it took any interest in our Red Gum, of which the leaves have been 
visibly severely attacked by leaf skeletonizer (Uraba sp.) caterpillars.
Through the years we have oten heard Fantailed Cuckoos calling at night, 
and not only in spring - at least two records in May (different years) 
several years ago.
Anthea Fleming
in Ivanhoe, Vic.
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