In Norfolk the guinea fowl was called the Comeback and was believed to call down rain. Forster noted that it squalled before rain and often kept up its clamour through a whole wet day. He put it among the popular weather signs he gathered at the start of March so that readers could use them all year.
The Comeback calls up rain
3 March · Norfolk
Lore and belief
This bird is called the Comeback in Norfolk, and regarded as the invoker of rain. It often continues clamorous throughout the whole of rainy days.
From Forster's Perennial Calendar, p. 89. Read the original
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