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Comforts of the Cuckoo

I heard the first cuckoo of my year an hour ago. In Connemara you usually saw her and heard her at the same time, the grayblue shape of her being harried fiercely by two or three smaller dunnocks or sparrows or tits who knew, somewhere inside their feathers, that she’d poach a place in their nests if she got half a chance.
 
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