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Sir - Today [April 24], we heard our first cuckoos, despite your climatic doom and gloom article ('A cuckoo on a clock may be the only one you'll see,' April 22). Regular as cuckoo-clockwork they have been returning to the St Davids peninsula on about April 23 - sometimes early, sometimes late by a day or two during the past 34 years at least.
A few miles away, at Nevern, there is a delightful legend that the cuckoo came on St Brynach's feast day, the seventh day of April, and sat on St Brynach's stone. The priest would not begin mass until the bird had first appeared, but one year it was late arriving and 'when it came at last, lighting on the said stone, her accustomed preaching place, and being scarce able once to sound the note, presently fell dead.'See the full content of this document
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Gloom Dispelled by Spring's First Cuckoo
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