THIS is the rare moment that a
cuckoo has been caught flying through the air with an egg resting in its beak.
Stephen Davies caught the unusual
moment when he stopped in the countryside near the Ochil Hills.
He got his camera out when he
spotted a cuckoo flying from the nest and could not believe his eyes when he
noticed a full egg resting gently in between its beak.
The 48-year-old from Tullibody,
Clackmannanshire, did not realise how unusual the picture was until he checked
his camera at home.
The phone shop manager said:
"Two cuckoos actually flew in front of me. I stopped and got the camera
out of the car and captured the female cuckoo carrying the egg.
"It looks like she found a
nest then removed the eggs to lay her own eggs.
"I didn't know I had
actually captured it. So when I got home I noticed it in my pictures, I knew it
was something I've never seen before.
"I knew it was a female
cuckoo when I saw the colouring of the bird.
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