Have had a lesser spotted woodpecker in our garden on several occasions recently. We have the usual range of tits too, blue, coal, great and occasional long-tailed, robins, blackbirds, starlings and my husband saw a couple of goldcrests.
Closest encounters with cuckoos have been in the Western Isles: one on Islay sitting on a fence just arm’s length away, and another unseen but heard loud and clear and very insistent, from 6am on Barra. Other “keep you awake” birds are corncrakes, first experienced on Cape Clear island off Co. Cork, and later on South Uist.