Sentence examples for First cuckoo from inspiring English sources

Like the first cuckoo of spring.

For some it is the sound of the first cuckoo.

On St George's Day in 1951 and again in 1952 I heard the first cuckoo of each season.

Birdsong greeted blizzards, the first cuckoo called in icy drizzle, and our swallows bowled in over another boreal blast.

In ancient times Britons marked the passing of the seasons by the falling of leaves and the first cuckoo.

A slew of star-vehicle period biopics, like the first cuckoo, signals that springtime and the awards season are not far away.

A bird-watching couple were my companions for a time; they reported seeing the first cuckoos and reed buntings of their season.

Swallows reached Scotland; the first wheatear was seen on Fair Isle; 55 ospreys were reported moving through various sites in England on Easter Sunday alone, and the first cuckoos and nightingales were seen and heard.

Her sacred bird was first the cuckoo, later the peacock.

First, each cuckoo lays one egg at a time and dumps its egg in randomly chosen nest.

Soon after, he made an arrangement with Anton Schneider & Sons, a sixth-generation cuckoo-clock maker, to manufacture them.