Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed cuckoos

Nice Anne. We have had them here since Saturday when just about all the hordes of colorful birds departed. Can the rain crows (Southern Md dialect for Yellow-billed) be far behind. It seems all the late warblers overflew us as we are down to breeding spp. John --- John and Sue Gregoire 5373 Fitzge

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed cuckoos

AYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed cuckoos Heard the low repeated harsh call and to make sure played the song and calls. Wow! Got one swooping me and hanging up in trees , long lens inside of course. Following second playback there were two, one flying closely after other. Not

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed cuckoos

Heard the low repeated harsh call and to make sure played the song and calls. Wow! Got one swooping me and hanging up in trees , long lens inside of course. Following second playback there were two, one flying closely after other. Not sure what sort of scenario I introduced. But two of them are

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoos

In the spirit of "the more you think you know, the more you have to learn" would anyone please describe the call differentiation between Black and Yellow-billed? I have had both on the sanctuary and banded both species. This year as we listen we had a few obvious Black Billed doing the three note

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoos

Yes, Yellow-billed is what I usually hear there at Salmon Creek. I don't think I've had Black-Billed there before. I forgot to say- I saw the Black-Billed on Sunday morning. Geo's post reminded me I hadn't reported this. --John On 6/4/2014 10:22 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: Interesting...just thi

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoos

Interesting...just this morning, Livia and I had a calling (kow...kow...) then nicely seen YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in the Salmon Creek Sanctuary right about where John described. Last evening around 5:00, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo was giving a k'k'k'k'k,kowp song on the Wilson Trail just north of the bui

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoos

Following up on Geo's YB Cuckoo post, I watched a pair of Black-Billed Cuckoos in the Salmon Creek sanctuary on Salmon Creek Rd. The best encounter with Cuckoos I've probably ever had, lots of cavorting and vocalizing right overhead along the road, maybe two hundred yards past Brooks Hill Rd.