A great loss to the british countryside

[Poacherman]

Anybody remember the cuckoo bird? I do it was synonymous with British summers just hearing the call takes me back to lazy days off my childhood sat under oak trees .Iv only heard it's call 2x in last 10 years once in edale in peak district and once on edge off Barnsley 2 yrs ago.

 

[bobnewboy]

I heard one on Dartmoor in May. I was out on a photo day, but couldn’t catch it on camera.

 

[Ystranc]

We used to hear them here in spring each year but then a mouth breathing Neanderthal felled a large area of trees to build three executive houses facing the river Irfon and we didn’t hear it again this spring. Ask me next year.

 

[Poacherman]

I heard one on Dartmoor in May. I was out on a photo day, but couldn’t catch it on camera.

That's great I love listening to them

 

[Dogoak]

There’s a few round me every year
Elusive birds to spot though.

 

[Poacherman]

We used to hear them here in spring each year but then a mouth breathing Neanderthal felled a large area of trees to build three executive houses facing the river Irfon and we didn’t hear it again this spring. Ask me next year.

Huge shame.

 

[Poacherman]

There’s a few round me every year
Elusive birds to spot though.

Part off Britain's heritage for sure .

 

[Herman30]

They must be more common in Finland. Past summer I heard them a few times. And in my childhood (70´s/early 80´s) we heard the cuckoo quite often. Probably because we spent more time outside as young.

 

[gra_farmer]

There’s a few round me every year
Elusive birds to spot though.

Luckily the same here....and I am in Kent, a poor suburb of London (or so Londoners think!).

I never heard cuckoos when younger, but I do now....must be the tossed KFC and burger van chips

 

[Ystranc]

I first heard one in StJohns in the vale up in Cumbria fifty years ago, I didn’t hear them again until I moved to my current home in mid Wales..I guess there are still pockets of them. There is more bird life here than I ever remember seeing elsewhere.

 

[Broch]

We've had cuckoos here this year; in fact, quite a few and over a reasonable period. We hadn't had them for a long time until a few years ago.

I walked up Cadair Idris in May this year and there was one a long way over on the other side of the valley - it was constant and became very annoying as we were slogging up the mountain side

 

[Wildgoose]

Heard one in April/May on Hankley Common, Surrey. It’s an area of low horse and heather. Couldn’t spot it but was clear as a bell

 

[Wander]

I hear the occasional one every year, but nowhere as many as I once did.
It all depends on where you are and where you go.
Last year I saw one sitting on a fence and I could have sworn I took a picture of it, but I've just checked my files and I can't see it there.

 

[Marcus2]

Lot's here on Bodmin Moor.Hear the call most mornings in season.

 

[Paul_B]

We went walking in Scotland and kept hearing them all over the place. I think it was on Skye and we heard them all around the edges of the island but not inland so much. If not skye then knoydart.

 

[Kepis]

Quite a few around these parts of Sussex each year.

 

[demented dale]

they are everywhere here in ireland so good news

 

[C_Claycomb]

Used to hear a few in south Leicestershire in the 1990s. Not for years, the 400 house estate built on the area didn’t help!

Last year, May, Borrowdale and the west side of Derwent, heard four separate birds while hiking.

 

[Nice65]

Quite a few around these parts of Sussex each year.

Heard a few around the Midhurst area while dog walking through the season.

The Cuckoo call was always one of those sounds that was noticed and commented on when heard, all throughout my life. So, not uncommon, but not an everyday thing.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I haven't noticed a change in their population in my neck of the woods (though I am a bit further south than y'all )
Hearing the first cuckoo of the year is always something special (usually in April ) & a sign that Spring is inevitable.