Cuckoo 2024

It's nearly cuckoo time.
Who's heard it?
Where?
Seen it?
I just love cuckoo time!

 

@Penny_Forthem Some are here and others on the way. Heard at Arne RSPB today and one seen on Bodmin Moor.

 

I heard the first cuckoo here on the 17th March but have never seen one.

 

I don't like any of you!

 

Sorry @DiggersJo. I have an advantage as I live rurally and my garden overlooks a valley. Any sound echoes through there.

 

I wish... But I've never heard one here in the UK

 

They are a rarity now. I hadn't heard one for a couple of decades until I moved here.

 

If there was a "love it" instead of just "like" oh you lucky lady @Sheal

 

Thank you @DiggersJo.

 

Wow!

 

Haven't seen or heard one for decades.

 

They're common on the lower slopes of the Argyll/Loch Lomond/Crianlarich hills around this time of year until about late May or even later. I often hear them.
I tried to catch one on my camera video [sound] when I was doing An Caisteal [Crianlarich] last June. Too far away for it though - just a good video of the midges instead

 

We used to have 1 near by but sadly no more

 

It varies around here. Last year I only heard a few, and they were in the distance. The previous year I heard lots and they were near by.
None this year yet but I haven't really spent much time in the garden so far, so wouldn't have heard them.