We used to have a cuckoo regularly in our end of our village, at the bottom end of North Yorks, but I haven't heard one for a year or two. One of my friends at the other end of the village heard one a week or two back.

However, another friend in a nearby village has had one in a tree in her garden for the last couple of weeks, and she's about to go strangle it, as it's up and shouting at sparrow-fart every morning. It has pigeons as accompanists. (She hasn't said anything about a woodpecker acting as drummer this year!)

Andrea