James Henry on the Cuckoo

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For author James Henry the bird sights and sounds of his Essex homeland brings continuous pleasure to his birding year. However birding came late to him and for many years the cuckoo remained something of an elusive bird after a brief flirtation as a child at his grandmothers holiday caravan when he heard but failed to see the bird. It then took forty years before he actually saw his fist cuckoo, after sunset near Romney Marsh as it flew over a field of cattle calling into the dusk. Producer : Andrew Dawes for BBC Audio in Bristol Studio Engineer : Caitlin Gazeley