cuckoos.

just heard the first one, its two years since i heard the last one.Has anyone any ideas as to why they seem so rare , well in east essex .
15:37 Tue 08th May 2012
 
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have not heard a cukoo in years ..not since Norfolk !!
I live in Hampshire and hear loads.
I've only ever heard one once where I live in Gloucestershire, which is odd as it's a very rural area. But I do hear them every year where I work in Wiltshire. They certainly do seem to be on the decline.
I think you are all a bit cuckoo! Only in the nicest way of course!
I've also seen a theory that they are arriving too late. Our birds have responded to warmer (it says here) springs by nesting earlier. By the time the cuckoos arrive the eggs have hatched so the cuckoos cannot add another one.

Give them a year or two and they will probably learn
East Kent, heard a couple over the weekend, first time this year.
I heard one last year but nothing yet so far, I'm not sure why I don't hear them anymore but I have noticed that the rhines seem to be cleaned more often in recent years thus destroying the reeds growing on the banks where I think they used to hang out, so that could be a reason.
They didn't arrive late this year, they arrived early - one was heard by ornithologists in February! But according to the RSPB, cuckoos are among the eight species of birds that have declined most in numbers in the UK over recent years.

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