Flowering Of Mango Trees & Call Of Cuckoo ... Advent of Spring

Yesterday (19th February) Once More 

"If winter comes , can spring be far behind?"

 Percy Bysshe Shelley

I heard the call of Cuckoo here  first time in short spell around 1427ist (2:27PM) i.e.0857utc , one minute later one day lightly longer spell from our campus North side. .Rushed to outside to record the audio but it stopped calling.

This year I have observed flowering in several  of the Mango Trees in our residential campus and its  fragrance can be felt  by nose's smell S-Meter....S9 with perfect copy 5 59  HI HI  

And later around 1703ist(5:03PM) i.e. 1133utc onwards for a few minutes with slight pause, heard another spell of the cuckoo's calling from outside our campus from South East side and weaker sound heard.This might be from distance.

From many winter seasons too,a few  Asiatic Koel both male & female are found roaming around our campus.They also eat fruits, rooti & bread etc thrown around on the ground by us.

Here is a link to a similar post posted in 2023 on this blog on Cuckoo in our campus

https://gkcalling.blogspot.com/2023/02/first-call-of-cuckoo-this-year.html

We all know what is the significance of the call of cuckoo in Assamese Society.

With Best Wishes

Gautam Kumar Sharma(VU3WTI)(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)

The Bird With Red Eye...The Asian Koel... Eudynamys scolopaceus..Coolie Chorai. (In Assamese )

Spotted In our backward on an afternoon...a few days back (On February 27th...0f 2018).My mother spotted it &  asked me to rush ..to capture it on camera from a close distance...Its a rare....& a moment of the life for me...Thanks to my mother for the tip.. Earlier in the day I captured a few moments of video from  distance of perhaps the same brid singing...Coooo.. Cooooo .its indeed a Koel Day ..Coolie Day for me... 

73 & 55

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)