Kate Crawford heard a cuckoo today just outside Dunbar, East Lothian.
She said, “Was walking in the glen behind our house near Spott, with my son and we heard it. Sadly could not see it. But my 3yr son knew what it was as we have a cuckoo clock. Will definitely be keeping eyes and ears open.”
Pauline Upstone heard a cuckoo on the 19th April while walking by a backwater of the Thames between Long Wittenham and Appleford villages near Didcot.
She said, “I wasn’t particularly listening out, but walking on my own near my home due to social distancing.
“The path by the river isn’t used much because the nettles come up, but they weren’t yet very high and it was such a lovely day to walk by this backwater.
It was about 10.30 am and I heard it only twice and didn’t see the bird, but I feel sure it was a cuckoo, as there are collared doves often in my garden, and the cuckoo sounds distinctive.”
Sarah Link heard a cuckoo yesterday in Essex.
She said, “My garden is next to the trees alongside the Wickford to Southminster train line. I am used to various birds (wood pigeon, robins, blackbirds, magpies, crows).
“Yesterday Wed 2nd April 2020 at 10.00am I heard a cuckoo.
“Haven’t heard one in years and was quite excited at the sound, so used to the doves and pigeons but this was definately a cuckoo.”