{"id":577,"date":"2011-03-06T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/the-cuckoo-flies-out-of-the-almond-tree-cuck-oo-cuck-oo\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T17:03:26","slug":"the-cuckoo-flies-out-of-the-almond-tree-cuck-oo-cuck-oo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/the-cuckoo-flies-out-of-the-almond-tree-cuck-oo-cuck-oo\/","title":{"rendered":"The cuckoo flies out of the almond tree &#8220;Cuck-oo, cuck-oo!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/almondsmontsant.jpg\" alt=\"Almond tree blossom at Alf\u00e9s with snow-capped Montsant way in the ba\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cold spells we have been through here in <strong>Catalonia<\/strong> have ensured that the <strong>Almond Trees<\/strong> didn&#8217;t start flowering until close to the end of February. In more settled, warmer winters\u00a0flowering may advance a couple of weeks or even more, which puts the entire almond harvest at great risk from a late frost.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a time worth waiting for. The days are drawing out, and one can easily be fooled into thinking that spring is already here. Especially when the strident tones of the marvellous <strong>Great Spotted Cuckoo<\/strong> ring out from a nearby tree on the plains, and I realize that it is not someone calling me on my mobile phone (the dial tone is a Great Spotted Cuckoo as chance would have it!) but rather the real thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gscuckoo.jpg\" alt=\"Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gscuckoofly.jpg\" alt=\"Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almond tree blossom with Great Spotted\u00a0Cuckoos, bliss!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The cold spells we have been through here in Catalonia have ensured that the Almond Trees didn&#8217;t start flowering until close to the end of February. In more settled, warmer winters\u00a0flowering may advance a couple of weeks or even more, which puts the entire almond harvest at great risk from a late frost. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-9j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}