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)

First Call Of Cuckoo(কুলি) This Year

I have heard the first call of the Cuckoo on this morning ,with dense fog around and very cool mild breeze blowing, around 05:55AM(0025utc). I heard the first spell with short call for a few seconds  and after a few moments,the call heard with slightly longer spell with slight pause.I think it came from the high branch of the mango tree of the front garden of residence just a few meters away.I rushed to the veranda to record a spell of call around 6:00AM(0030utc) on my mobile.

Here is the link to the audio file recorded around 6:00AM
The First Recorded Call Of Cuckoo:

https://app.box.com/s/iezokt7xnwbxgdqi311obv0h9q2a7c2t

Here in Assam, often hear people saying that the call of Cuckoo signifies the advent of spring.This time the first call of Cuckoo comes still in winter, slightly early.

The three or four cuckoos (black & another brown type colours)  roam around our campus even in winter for a few years now.In our wood adjacent to our house  they finds a safe heaven as there are plenty of trees with seeds of various trees.They often can be seen on the branches of Korobi plant(Oleander),I guess they like to take the fruits of Korobi .Though I heard , it is poisonous to human.

Anyway,I could not resist sharing these photographs of The Cuckoo on our campus in December 2018,which I took very carefully with our now out of order camera Sony cyber shot. HD20.

With Best Wishes At The Advance Advent Of Spring Though Winter Is Still There HI HI
There Is No Limit Here HI HI
With Call Of Cuckoo Can Spring Be Far Behind, So It Is The Advent Of Spring With Coolness..

73

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)

(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)