Linda Carruthers wrote from Maiden Newton, Dorset to say “I have heard it loads this year, the last time I heard it was last week, not heard it since. I have heard it every year for the last few years apart from 2017, which was a bit concerning.”

Gary Hayes heard a cuckoo this morning at 4:45 on North Baddesley Common, Hampshire.

He said, “My wife and I are absolutely positive that we heard a cuckoo. Can you assures us that we aren’t going nuts?”

Chris Fountain heard a cuckoo this year in Acharacle on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.

He said, “We heard at least two cuckoos on four occasions whilst on holiday 8-15th June this year.

“We live in Yorkshire and had not a heard a cuckoo for about 6 years. We are members of the RSPB. Hope this report is of some use. I did not think of cuckoos this far North and West.”

Sonia Rodwll heard a cuckoo today at Oulton Broad, Norfolk.

Nikki Mckie heard a cuckoo today on Dinton Pastures, near Woodly, a suburb of Reading.

Sally Sampson heard a cuckoo today in Garston Woods near Sixpenny Handley, Dorset.

Derek Healing heard his first cuckoo of the year in Henley in Arden, Warwickshire at 9:00 this morning.

John Gurney heard a cuckoo on the 11th April at Linford Bottom in the New Forest, Hampshire

He said he’d not heard one in this location in any previous years.

John Madden heard a cuckoo yesterday afternoon and early evening and then again this morning in Crowhurst, Surrey.

Debbi Lilley heard a cuckoo twice this morning while walking her dogs at 6 am in Woodchurch, Kent.

Jan from Cardiff Bay emailed us to say, “I’m a farmer’s daughter and as a child my grandfather and father would always be excited to tell us when they’d heard the first cuckoo of spring.

“When I heard the cuckoo this morning it was such a lovely memory of my childhood on the farm as I now live in the city.”

Tania Mctigue heard a cuckoo at 7.30 this morning in woods owned by the Woodland Trust behind her home in Holmwood near Dorking, Surrey.

Tiny Wood heard a cuckoo this morning in Yorkley on the edge of the Forest of Dean.

She said it was wonderful as she hasn’t heard one for a few years.

Diane Ranwell wrote to tell us she heard a cuckoo twice this morning at 8:00 am in Modubry, Devon.

For cuckoos to be back in the UK they would have had to have left Africa in December. We do not know of any reason why they would have left Africa so early but if anyone is able to help then please let us know. You can follow the cuckoos tagged by the BTO here.

We have had reports from 3 people who said that they have heard cuckoos yesterday and today in Wrangaton and Chawleigh, Devon, and Penmaenmawr, North Wales. It is far too early and far too cold for cuckoos to have made their way back from Africa so what they probably heard were collared doves which often get mistaken for cuckoos at this time of year.

Georgina Llewellyn emailed us to say she heard a cuckoo yesterday near the junction of Fernbrook Road and Conwy Old Road.

She said she could not believe her ears and asked my partner what did he think it was. He confirmed – yes, it was definitely a cuckoo.

She added it was 11.05, a lovely sunny day but temperature was only 6-7 degrees.

Although the day was reasonably warm cuckoos have not yet returned to the UK from Africa to begin breeding so it is very unlikely it was a cuckoo Georgina heard.