First Cuckoo of the Year

Returning from the monthly meeting of the Axarquia Bird Group, more later with photos and a very unexpected rare sighting at close quarters - and I mean close as in inches rather than feet, approaching Los Romanes a rather handsome male Cuckoo perched on the road barrier.  Obviously, no chance of a photo as the bird took flight down the valley with downbeat wings as the car approached.  What luck!  Presumably, I was the first "visitor" since the bird landed but, nevertheless, still a wondrous sight.