Sir, - Yesterday morning (May 1st), at 6.45, I heard the cuckoo for the first time this year, is this a record late arrival? Why is the cuckoo so late this year, was it that high pressure zone that hung between Ireland and northern Africa for so long early in April or was it Hale-Bopp sending the cuckoos cuckoo? Yours, etc.,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.