When did you last hear a Cuckoo?

[Ashley Cawley]

I usually hear them in Kingswood near St Austell around end of April early may, you normally have to sit still a while, but they are there.

Andy

Thanks Andy! Great to see you on here bud.

Next year I will certainly be visiting Kingswood and sitting quietly for a while.

[Paul Webster]

There was an article in the BBC news today about the decline of the cuckoo...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/9203476.stm
The RSPB estimate that the population in the UK has declined about 37% in the past 15 years. That's a huge amount.

[Shewie]

The last I heard was on Loch Sheil back in June, there were one or two knocking around in my usual haunts earlier in the year too. I hope the decline reverses itself, magnificent birds which are synonymous of British woodland.

[Bush_Men]

Well, dunno how's the population of these birds in Portugal but I hear them quite frequently on the woodlands near the house. So lucky me...

[Metal mug]

Well where I am (North Devon) You hear them quite often in the spring. It seem strange though that they are rare in dartmoor. Could it be a lack of other bird nests to lay their eggs in?

[comanighttrain]

Up in the highlands its common enough not to be remarkable .... are they being wiped out or something?

[Comptona]

we get them all through the spring in West Oxon, along with Buzzards and Red Kites we have an abundance of wild birds round here.

[beechnut mick]

Ash,most cuckoo from the UK would have migrated to other parts of Europe like Italy,they normaly return march april time so will be quiet till then.

[Skate]

Heard my first cuckoo of the year this evening on some local common land. Also saw the first swallow on 9th April.

[Adam Savage]

Hear a couple this year, started a week ago round here.