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Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 13 May 25

The Noni fruit is loaded with nutrients and is specially recommended for diabetics. I do not know why the cuckoo loves this fruit We have several birds that visit us but it is only the cuckoo I see on the noni tree Th noni...

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This bird is all confused

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 3 May 25

Just around May we hear cuckoos with their mating call and this with the first shower in May But it has been raining in April now and then. I heard a cuckoo with its mating call in April and now I do not hear them any more....

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Beak full of Noni

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 16 Jan 24

We have many Noni trees and they attract cuckoos. I like their chirps which are different for different occasions Their mating chirps are long and soleful and there are happy chirps too then they spot noni fruits ripe and ready....

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Cuckoo and the noni fruit

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 31 Oct 22

We have several birds visiting our garden and it is the cuckoo that will relish the noni fruit compared to the other birds. We see them hanging around and since we have these trees all over the garden we get to listen to their...

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A photo through the blinds and the mosquito net

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 14 Oct 22

I clicked this photo of the cuckoo that was perched on the noni tree. I could clearly see it from inside. I used the zoom feature of my camera and clicked it through the window blinds and the mosquito net Birds do not like...

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photo through the blinds

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Noni trees are laden with fruit

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 26 May 22

We have several Noni fruit trees all over the garden that have come up on their own. We just had one to start with. None fruit has health properties but they cannot be eaten unless a fermented juice is prepared from them. The...

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At last!

Fleur @Fleura (34925) • United Kingdom 19 May 22

Some British people may know the old rhyme: The cuckoo comes in April In May he sings all day At the end of June he changes his tune And in July he flies away. Cuckoos are also reputed to arrive in Britain at around the same...

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Fan Palm berries

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 22 Apr 22

Because the leaves look like an opened fan the tree has got this name - fan palm. We have had this tree for several years but we have not seen much growth. However it produces these beautiful cluster of berries. I am not sure...

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Cuckoo and their favourite noni fruit

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 15 Jun 21

We have noni fruit trees Although they are reported to have health properties when fermented juice is prepared I only have them for the sake of cuckoos. Cuckoos are fond of this fruit and I simply love their chirps when they...

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I know I should have been working but ...

Jackie Money @olliesmum (828) • Norwich, England 24 May 19

The weather here in the UK finally seems to have realised it's Spring and not Winter. I had to take a trip to the doctor's surgery in the village this morning for a routine blood test and the plan had been that we'd take a trip...

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Getting someone else to do your job

Joanie @Freelanzer (10782) • Canada 19 Apr 17

Have you ever had someone do the job you should be doing? I saw this interesting piece on BBC Earth where the common cuckoo lays its eggs in the nest of another bird, and cons the other bird into thinking it is her eggs. She...

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Cuckoo Clocks

Timothy Webber @webberclocks (3) 6 Jul 16

I am always searching for cuckoo clock to repair. I kno there has to be one out there somewhere, but where? i can't seem to find them. Oh well, guess its back to searching.

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Nature post of the day: cuckoo

Fleur @Fleura (34925) • United Kingdom 28 Apr 16

For a while now I‘ve been listening out for the arrival of the cuckoo but heard nothing apart from the odd false alarm of a pigeon with a cough – until this morning when finally that distinctive call drifted across to my bedroom...

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The Crazy Bird!

Arundhati @arundhatiwriter (276) • India 12 Apr 16

There is a cuckoo near our house, who starts cooing at odd hours in the night. There is no fixed time; it can start anytime around 2-4 AM. We go to the balcony and try to trace from which tree the sound comes; but we are never...

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is tom cruise really cuckoo or is it his religion?

Ritchelle @Ritchelle (3790) • Philippines 26 May 10

tom cruise discusses his scripts with suri. this is the latest i read. he thinks this would make him a better actor . well, at least, he's consistently cuckoo. john travolta is also a scientologist but isn't this...

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scientology

tom cruise

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Do you like the singing of the cuckoo?

cudamani @cudamani (996) • India 9 Jun 09

The cuckoo bird has such a ringing voice that we really enjoy it. And the best part of the cuckoo bird is that it is named after the sound which it raises 'cuckoo'. Do you like its singing?

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I would like to have a green house

aliceliu2008 @aliceliu2008 (82) • China 18 Jan 09

I would like to buy a green house.But they say:Green is cool.Unfit for habitation.The walls of the room is light green,as far away as a stream.Wood furniture is also a primary color,it is said now is not popular.Then I went to...

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Author Dale Wasserman dies

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 30 Dec 08

http://www.wsmv.com/entertainment/18367696/detail.html?treets=nash&tid=2657537830813&tml=nash_ent&tmi=nash_ent_-1_11150112302008&ts=H [i]"The man who authored the script for the Tony-winning musical "Man of La Mancha" as well...

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congestive heart failure

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American Film Institute (AFI) List of Best Movies

bibbigaadu @bibbigaadu (168) • India 3 Sep 08

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies -- 10th Anniversary Edition:1 Citizen Kane (1941) 2 The Godfather (1972) 3 Casablanca (1942) 4 Raging Bull (1980) 5 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 6 Gone With the Wind (1939) 7 Lawrence of Arabia...

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when i go to a nursing home.

MOMMASAM @MOMMASAM (1003) • United States 10 Aug 08

i just read sparky's response to my cardboard testimonies discussion. i told her when i get older (i'm now 60), and i go to a nursing home, i would like her to share a big room with me. i want the bed closest to the...

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