Earliest cuckoo

[rowanwitch]

Heard one this morning took a while to register what I was hearing assuming an early migrant stopping over to feed but possibly looking at local farmland as a potential nest site

May be the earliest for some years although unconfirmed report of one on Exmoor on 15th

[sandyRoe]

I'm not sure if I've ever heard a cuckoo's call. Could it be a Collared Dove?

[rowanwitch]

I'm good on my doves and pigeons as they are all common round here, I've heard cuckoos before but not locally its pretty unmistakeable when you hear one...

[chaptazbru]

I heard my first cuckoo ever last spring (think it was late April) coming from some woodland when out for a walk with pooch. I was enthralled and hope to hear another one this spring. Would love to have seen it.

[Lillymoon]

I have only ever seen one cuckoo, that was in Humberside when I lived in a very rural village.

I hear a few these days but only in certain locations. You are very lucky to have heard one so early in the year Rowanwitch.

[ladybirder]

Gosh luck you, so early as well. Where was it rowan?

[rowanwitch]

south Birmingham open fields near a reservoir