Cuckoo

[old'un]

During the last 2 weeks I've been hitting the crows and pigeons on a few sown fields, usually whilst sitting and watching the field you hear and see lots of wildlife activity, the one bird I have not seen or heard for a very long time is the Cuckoo, when I was younger you would always hear them come April.

Do you have them in your area?

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, not heard one yet here in south oxon

[garygreengrass]

Bit early yet.

[old man]

Too early as garyg says.

Used to be commonish but in a real decline now.

[Konnie]

My farther was talking to a picking up friend today and he said he has heard one and seen his first swallow, now a week later than last year's sighting on my patch and not a glimps of a swallow.

[E.w.]

We've got swallow hear in North Wales but don't tend to hear the cuckoo until mid May.

[anser2]

I have yet to hear one in Norfolk this year ,though it is a touch early , but one was reported yesterday on the Birdline in the Broads. Getting rarer and rarer every year.not so many years ago I once saw 7 in the air at once near Fakenham, Norfolk. I only heard one last spring and then only for one day. A sign of our decling wildlife in the countryside. They feed on large caterpillars , with big moths in decline the lack of caterpillar food drives the cuckoo down with them

Edited April 13, 2017 by anser2