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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Dickinson" data-source="post: 1347393" data-attributes="member: 10828"><p>I have vivid memories of hearing cuckoos in our local park in Leeds during the early 60's, I would guess that at the time they would have been 'dunnock' cuckoos as there isn't/wasn't any suitable habitat for reed warbler or meadow pipit in the park. I never saw them though, that's my only regret.  On a 'nature ramble' from primary school I have a vague recollection of seeing a blue blur, which the teacher identified as a kingfisher, on the beck running through the wood down the way from the school. For years after I thought that the teacher had made up the id as I couldn't understand how a bird that had a lovely orange belly looked so blue. Then when I saw my first 'proper' kingfisher after I started birding I realised how vivid the blue/green is, and how very little of the orange you see on a flying bird.</p></blockquote><p></p>