Anyone heard the Cuckoo yet?

[mad al 146]

I heard it twice at about 09.50hrs this morning , ten days earlier than last year . We have quite a few in the forest I run in and in a couple of places, you can actually watch them.

This and the sound of the Woodpeckers are two of my favourites...............Al

[samba 534]

IT USUALLY THE END OF APRIL FOR ME 28TH LAST YEAR

I REMEMBERED THIS AS IT WAS MY SONS BIRTHDAY

BUT IM IN YORKSHIRE

COULD BE DIFFERENT IN OTHER AREAS

[mole catcher 1]

Not heard a cuckoo yet but ive seen house martins this weekend. looks like sumers on its way

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

No Cuckoo's here just yet. I never actually bothered to make any kind of note of when they arrived last year. Tell ye what though; When they do get here, my back gate is the place to be! We have a massive tree up to the left and one way down to the right. I had Three Cuckoo's here and they were all flighting between those trees. Maybe all three were trying to claim one tree each? I don't know. But the result was that I soon enough got over the novelty of watching all three in the air at once. Then one came in low, right over my cottage. What a view I had of that bugger!

 

I'll let ye know when they get back here

[socks 32,253]

i have been hearing them down year since the middle of last month ............

[OldTrapCollector 377]

i have been hearing them down year since the middle of last month ............

 

Nothing heard from the cuckoos yet, from here in the middle of the country. The chiff-chaffs were here on 24 March and the first swallow was here on 5 March.

 

OTC

[midnight walker 8]

no cuckos yet but there is few woodpeckers

[juckler123 707]

Cuckoos are here in the east midlands but as yet arent singing saw two last week on the local gravel pit have you heard em laugh well thats what they sound like they are doing.

Had one last year with a messed up call three sylabul type of thing cuck coo cuck

[samba 534]

BEEN FOR A WONDER THIS MORNING SEEN TWO ON FENCE POSTS

NEAR AN OLD QUARRY[bARNSDALE BAR SIDE OF A1]YORKSHIRE

ALSO SWALLOWS ON TELEPHONE WIRES

[mad al 146]

Cuckoos are here in the east midlands but as yet arent singing saw two last week on the local gravel pit have you heard em laugh well thats what they sound like they are doing.

Had one last year with a messed up call three sylabul type of thing cuck coo cuck

 

 

I've heard of this "laugh" before , but as yet, can't say I have ...........Al

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Yeppers. Heard that a lot. I call it 'The Cuckoo Getting Goosed'. Comes out kind of like, " Cuckoo Ooh!. Sounds like they've sat on something.

 

First time I heard it, I felt like writing in to British Birds. But then I figured it must be a well known enough thing. Plainly, it is.

[juckler123 707]

No DS they laugh like a parrot i used to carpfish the lake and the cuckoos would be well vocal a proper laughing sound similar to a maggies chatter

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

I fished the River Suck two weeks ago over in Rosscommon and heard a cuckoo.

 

Last year on the R.Inny we had plenty of them around this time of year.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

I'll listen out for that, Juckler! Mate of mine asked me, last year, what the hell it was sounding like a baby goat or something. I figured it was just him being a c***. But then, that one massive tree which the cuck's favour is right next to his place. Maybe they've been sitting up there doing that and tormenting him?

 

Foewarned is forearmed. They'll be hear soon and I'll pay attention. Cheers! :good.

[juckler123 707]

A first for me this year is watching stormcocks nesting on the back yard never heard it before but when ever something comes near not only have they been mobbing but one of their alarm calls is like a ducks quack used as a warning defore they attack works a treat, the squirrels respect the thrushes now just with a few warning notes.