Mark Mifsud Bonnici and his son, Nicholas, trudge to their field and as they enter the hide a bird flies out of a tree some 10 metres away.
“It’s a cuckoo,” Mark says, recognising the bird’s shape and colour.
The bird rests on another tree further away and, for the rest of the morning, it dances around the area, sometimes out of sight but with its characteristic cuckoo sound very audible.
My cameraman and I join father and son on their hunting trip in what is expected to be a typical morning out in the field.
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