Give Him The Bird?

Blacka’s chief cuckoo this year is not fully compliant with trading standards. However effective he is in his other duties his singing is lamentable. Singing lessons will have to be arranged. It’s not as if he has a difficult task. Two notes, in tune and with clarity is all that’s called for. What we're hearing is one rather poor note followed by something little better than a croak. Compared to the virtuoso singing heard from much smaller birds this is poor stuff.

A suggestion has been made that he’s been doing too much spitting.



And that this could have led to him getting a froghopper in his throat.