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A few days ago I thought I heard a cuckoo, but thought this improbable and decided that it was a dove or a pigeon. Then this evening, around 2115, I heard what I thought really was a cuckoo, calling maybe half a dozen times, from what sounded like our back garden. But that bit is not very reliable as the double glazing does funny things with the apparent direction of sound.

We last heard cuckoos for sure on the moor above Holne, on the eastern side of Dartmoor in Devon. Noticed, inter alia, at reference 2.

And in the distant past we used to hear them on Epsom Common. But then there is reference 1: maybe there really are cuckoos out there, now, all the way from Africa.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/05/phantom-cuckoos.html. Another possible tweet, just about this time last year.

Reference 2: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/05/tweets.html. The Devon tweets.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cuckoo.

Reference 4: https://www.birdspot.co.uk/first-cuckoo-2020. A cuckoo is listed at Reigate Heath at the beginning of the month, less than 20km away.