Cuckoos

m0rrisman
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edited July 2021 in Wildlife, Nature & the Great Outdoors #1

I haven't seen or heard a cuckoo this year, have any of you heard one, if so in which area of the UK

 

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  • moulesy
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    edited July 2021 #2

    We heard a couple in the Lake District last week, one near Buttermere and one near Loweswater - sadly they are the only ones we've heard all year. frown

  • Pliers
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    edited July 2021 #3

    We heard a few in Norfolk, late April, and nearer to home, in East Lancashire, May and early June.

    Never an easy bird to spot, and ( I think) in decline in the UK.

     

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited July 2021 #4

    No, not one🤷🏻‍♂️. More Woodpeckers than usual-it don’t make up for the cuckooless year but it was a nice +👍🏻

  • Hja
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    edited July 2021 #5

    Was on a CL in Cambridgeshire a couple of weeks ago - heard cuckoos across the fields.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2021 #6

    We heard quite a few in Wales, the first near Pencoed, then a lot more around the Llangurig, followed by Aberbran, Brecon, then Bircher Common near Croft Castle and finally at Swynnerton Old Park near Market Drayton

  • Wherenext
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    edited July 2021 #7

    Heard a few. At least 2 different ones when on Angelsey and 1 near Welshpool. There was also one on the moors in Staffordshire near the Roaches area about 5 weeks ago. Not seen one this year.

    We have always seen young ones in September on the Ouse Washes near March in Cambridgeshire.

  • Impy
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    edited July 2021 #8

    We heard several cuckoos in the New Forest in May.

  • DEBSC
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    edited July 2021 #9

    Staying in our static van near Stratford Upon Avon a couple of weeks ago and one flew very close past our open bedroom window, calling loudly. It was 5.30 am and it woke us both up. 

  • Rob2CathDavies
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    edited July 2021 #10

    We heard several near Hurn Lane site, early May.  Walked to Brean Down from site, there were at least three cuckoos on the headland.  Or one that was following us.... Then heard another just near the site entrance.  

  • SteveL
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    edited July 2021 #11

    We heard several when we were in western Scotland in mid May. At Morvich we were several miles up a Glen with nothing other than scrub and heather about. Never actually observed them, just the call echoing round the mountainside.

  • Oneputt
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    edited July 2021 #12

    Photographed a cuckoo at SWT Lackford Lakes in May, saw 3 at RSPB Lakenheath, 3 at SWT Carlton Marshes and 1 at RSPB Strumpshaw.  Heard one on Tuesday whilst watching the European Roller in Suffolk

  • mickysf
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    edited July 2021 #13

    Heard one or two early in their season here but sadly not like the numbers in my childhood. Only ever seen three and none of these in last twenty years.

  • brue
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    edited July 2021 #14

    We've lost our local cuckoos (live in hope they'll return.) But I recorded cukoos singing by the Avon in Worcs (near Pershore) using my phone and a video clip. Next trip out to the eastern reaches of England we heard lots of cuckoos and saw one too, no doubt the marshlands over that way are a great attraction, they need the right habitat don't they? It was also marshy along the part of the Avon we visited. Poor old reed warblers, cuckoos to rear! wink

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2021 #15

    We've heard them up there too, but that was quite a few years ago. Obviously a favoured place for them.

  • Fisherman
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    edited July 2021 #16

    Very few here in Western Mid Wales. There were 3 together at Trawsfynydd Lake the other day, but locally not heard one. Swallow family also scarce. Local/native birds have done very well though apart from the ground nesters who have been devastated by carnivores.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2021 #17

    The site owner at Llangurig said that there were 4 pairs around the valley there. We saw one but certainly heard others calling.

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