Strange as it may seem (at least it does to me) we have been regularly hearing a black-billed cuckoo here in farm country. Just this evening we saw the elusive bird fly from the telephone wire into the willow and then I lost it in the maple tree. I figured it to be more of a woodland bird, but there it was surrounded by barns and uncut, wet hay fields. I am so happy to have finally seen it, thanks to my husband who noticed a bird whose tail was not flicking up and down like our resident mockingbird.
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