A great loss to the british countryside

[The puffin squire]

Familiar spring sound along with the woodpecker in the east Kent countryside. I've luckily spent 20 odd years working in the countryside and best advice Get up and get out early.

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[Kepis]

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.

Yup, i still comment on the Cuckoo call each time i hear it, round these parts they seemed to have increased their presence in recent years, mainly i think due to the change in farming practice, the farm i back on to used to be all arable and lots of hedges had been ripped out to make bigger fields, but the farm changed hands and is now Sheep, Beef cattle and the only plant crops (apart from the Pumpkins) are for animal feed (Maize, Turnips and Barley), the new farmer has also put back many of the hedgerows and planted thousands of trees, we have also seen this last couple of years the return of Hares, which i haven't seen around here since i was nipper.

 

[GNJC]

Still hear them now and then here - West Wales - but there are nothing like the numbers there were. Saw one this year, once; haven't filmed / photographed one since Summer 2014.

 

[jcr71]

they still come here to the New Forest each spring.
my girlfriend actually saw one flying from one tree to another this year.
ive never managed to see one myself.

 

[nigelp]

they still come here to the New Forest each spring.
my girlfriend actually saw one flying from one tree to another this year.
ive never managed to see one myself.

Yes, lots in the New Forest and surrounding area. I’ve heard and seen quite a lot this year. I tend to see a greater variety of all birds on the woodland edges or just outside of the ‘Forest’ where there is a a mix of hedgerow and farmland (if it’s not just intensive agricultural).