Last night (2-3 June) was unexpectedly active for cuckoos. We had the passage of a cold front move through our region late afternoon on 2 June, resulting in a light Northwest airflow across our region overnight.
Despite this headwind, a total of 12 Black-billed Cuckoos and 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoos called between 11:36pm and 4:25am. Other birds of note: 3 Swainson's Thrushes 1 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Green Heron Otherwise, pretty quiet night! Attached is an example of one of the nicer, louder Black-billed Cuckoos. Good night-listening! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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