> Elizabeth Cook wrote: >> I'm sure I just heard a cuckoo. It was definitely not one of those >> annoying >> doves but a proper cuckoo; I even went to the RSPB website to check that >> the >> call was the same. Has anyone else seen or heard one this year? I've >> never >> heard one in Milton before. >> > Richard Davies wrote: > I'm sure I heard a cuckoo this morning in the country park. It was > somewhere at the north end of the park south of the houses in Pearson > Close. > It's definitely a cuckoo. I heard it again from our garden this evening and nipped to the country park to try to see where it was. It was calling from somewhere outside the park behind the "wetlands" at the north-east end. I couldn't get any closer than that. Regards, Richard