Have you heard the cuckoo this year?

We used to hear them in Essex but haven’t since moving to Norfolk.

In Oxfordshire, this year I have only heard a cuckoo twice in May and once this week. For a few years there was one that started up at 4am every day of its season, which I loved to hear, but not in recent years.
I always used to feel sorry for my deaf mother who had never heard one.

I have heard the cuckoo every spring for 40 + years in our local wood in Yorkshire. Very sadly I've not heard it once this year.It has made me feel quite glum.
Mind you so has my neighbour using his his hedgetrimmer just now for 2 hours on the big hawthorn hedge between us.There are birds nesting in there.I very carefully trimmed back the longest bits encroaching on our path yesterday. And now he's butchering it from the other side. We get in well and I've dropped hints before about wildlife because they seem to have no regard for it. But today just can't bring myself to say anything. Just quietly seething instead.

We’re in a very leafy part of outer SW London but I haven’t heard one for years.
Plenty of assorted other bird life though, inc. great spotted woodpeckers and the pesky parakeets!

I have heard one virtually daily on my early morning dog walks along the Blackwater estuary, here in Essex. Have also heard a couple more in some of the surrounding areas. I have heard this regularly over many years now and always heave a sigh of relief when I hear the first call in Spring that heralds the cuckoo’s return.

In Shropshire they’re alive and well and have been around since May.

We can hear them from our garden in nearby trees, and have heard several while out walking in the countryside. It's been a good cuckoo year.

I haven’t heard one for many years, sadly. When I was a child/teenager in Cheshire they used to drive me mad. They always seemed at their most persistent when I was revising for exams.

Twice: once in West Sussex, at 3a.m! for an hour and a half, and recently in Dorset.

Yes walking the dog in New Forest today on our way to Devon.

We haven't heard one here for a few years since houses were built on what we think was their habitat.

We used to hear them every spring here in North Bucks but none this year nor any woodpeckers. Not surprising as every inch of land seems to be sprouting new housing developments an road/ rail building ( don’t mention HS2 round here!)

Normally we hear and see cuckoos in our local country park, but we haven’t heard them yet I’m afraid.

Not heard a single one here in a rural part of West Midlands. Someone locally did manage to photograph one though. They put it on our local FB page, so there are obviously some around. Perhaps they're the dumb variety.