Sonia Saunders emailed to say she heard a cuckoo today in Farnham, Suffolk.

She said, “I was very shocked today to hear a cuckoo. My ears were not deceiving me it was a very quiet clear crisp day and the sound of the cuckoo was loud and clear! It seems extremely early!”

It is extremely early. Far too early, in fact for cuckoos to have returned to the UK, so unfortunately Sonia’s ears were deceiving her.