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I've lived in my presant home for 10 years and this is the first I haven't (as yet) heard a cuckoo. Every April/ may we would hear and see curlew but they never arrived last year and haven't this. I do miss the curlew to me it was the sound of spring.

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  On 17/05/2014 at 08:26, anser2 said:

Matone the reason for cuckoo decline is a combination of the lack of large insects for food , the drop in host birds such at meadow pipit and problems on their winter migration. Crows have very little if any impact on them. Numbers have dropped sharply in my area of Norfolk. 20 years ago it was not uncommon to see three or four males chasing a female , but these days they are more often heard than seen. Most years I have at least one in my wood.

Yeah ,ok.

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  On 21/05/2014 at 02:35, Dave55 said:

I've lived in my presant home for 10 years and this is the first I haven't (as yet) heard a cuckoo. Every April/ may we would hear and see curlew but they never arrived last year and haven't this. I do miss the curlew to me it was the sound of spring.

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  On 21/05/2014 at 02:35, Dave55 said:

I've lived in my presant home for 10 years and this is the first I haven't (as yet) heard a cuckoo. Every April/ may we would hear and see curlew but they never arrived last year and haven't this. I do miss the curlew to me it was the sound of spring.

Better late than never, heard first cuckoo today 25th may. Must have stopped off in Kent for a light ale on the way up!

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