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Thread #130409   Message #3692064
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
06-Mar-15 - 06:59 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Echo Mocks the Corncrake / Corncraik
Subject: RE: Origins: Echo Mocks the Corncrake / Corncraik
Not a bad song, i suppose but, although about an endangered species, I do have a wee bit of trouble when people wax lyrical about corncrakes - having been kept awake pretty well all night on Cape Clear Island (Ireland) by their incessant arrf-arrf arrf-arrf. Spent ages on South Uist once trying to spot one - could hear the buggers all around us, but they are a bit camera-shy.
But then we had a very determined cuckoo on Barra who started singing at 6am!