Going cuckoo

The movement of a single bird gets me all of a twitter

“Dear Lev,

We have exciting news!”

Words that are usually a prompt to delete. But the sender is on the ‘trusted’ list. I read on.

“Ellis is on the move!”

Ah, now you're talking.

For Ellis is a cuckoo, and has spent the last four and a half months in the Congo basin. But this week he flew the small matter of 2,000 miles west, and is now in Guinea. And when a cuckoo moves, that means the start of something. You can call it ‘spring’ if you like.