But at least, anyone following the progress of the cuckoos on the BTO's website in these recent freezing weeks could watch them flying from the Congo – Chris began to move north on 4 March – and be reassured that the warm times were indeed on the way towards us.
He played the violin in a musical club, wrote light verse, and, as a naturalist, made many observations, particularly on the nesting habits of the cuckoo and on bird migration.
The adaptive value of small eggs is not well understood, but it is assumed to be related to the reliance of the common cuckoo on small hosts.
AS THE CUCKOO CLOCK on the living room wall mooed the hour (yes, mooed: the cuckoo is a cow, the clock a gift from Ms. Sieger), Mr. Wehrli mused on cultural stereotypes, like the orderliness of the Swiss.
AS THE March winds drop, England looks forward to the familiar heralds of spring the primrose, the cuckoo and, on May 1st, the anti-capitalist protests that in recent years have left London's streets full of glass and the pockets of its policemen full of overtime pay.
CUCKOO'S NEST Heritage Grove is just four miles from the small town of La Honda, where Ken Kesey wrote parts of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on his bathroom wall.
Laurents wrote several plays, including "The Time of the Cuckoo," which ran on Broadway during the 1952-53 season, as well as screenplays for "Rope" and the Streisand picture "The Way We Were".
You can track the progress of Derek and the other cuckoos on the BTO cuckoo website.
Casting is much discussed on this DVD and on the "Cuckoo's Nest" discs.
So why is it O.K. to be 300 years too early but not 600 years too early?" Catbird Seat With his staging of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" playing on Broadway, a leading role on the HBO series "Oz" and roles in several recent films -- including James Ryan's "Young Girl and the Monsoon," which opens in New York today (review, Page 14) -- Terry Kinney looks like the latest King of All Media.
