FOURTH SEASON (1921): RECORD 133 
me, settled on the common barely 30 yards in front 
of me, only to rise at once and fly on to the centre 
orchard, “ bubbling ” as she went, and then away 
south right into the forest. 
I immediately went to the spot where she had 
momentarily alighted and found the nest of No. 5 
pair, which already contained two eggs although it 
was restarted but a week ago. Obviously the 
Cuckoo had moved her position ten minutes ago, 
intending to fly down to this nest, and desiring to 
avoid floating right over me. 
We now took up fresh positions so as to include 
No. 5*s nest in our operations. At 2.5 I found the 
Cuckoo settled in the top boughs of her favourite 
oak tree (E) in the forest, and from Simmonds’ 
report as to where he had seen her flying at 1.5 
it was evident that she had been sitting there since 
that time. Thereupon we knew that she had been 
having only a passing glance at No. 5’s nest and 
consequently we all concentrated upon nest 9 3 . 
At 2.54 the Cuckoo, accompanied by No. 9 
pair of Pipits, floated from the oak tree E, and 
alighted close to their nest. She evidently did not 
like the hide, which was much closer to the nest 
than usual, and floated off to pear tree C. Shortly 
afterwards she glided back to the site of the nest 
