Interesting! I heard a cuckoo early this morning, distantly and though Black billed. But now that you say that, it was just the single call. So now we have also had both in the area, after having neither for several years. I wonder if it is the gypsy moth caterpillars that are bringing them into the area?
Thanks! Nancy On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:23 AM Donna Lee Scott <d...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Earlier in season I had BB Cuckoo here on Lans. Station Rd. > Lately, I have heard only YB Cuckoo. > > Donna Scott > Lansing > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 9, 2021, at 10:17 AM, Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just heard the repeated single calls of a yellow-billed cuckoo outside > my home / office. Coupled with the BBCU from last month, that's both > cuckoos as new yard birds for me this season! Again, once I got > outside it stopped calling and could not be found. > > Is it just me, or have the black-billed cuckoos, who seemed to be > singing everywhere earlier in the season, been replaced by > yellow-billed cuckoos lately? We had looks and calls from > yellow-billed cuckoos on our Connecticut Hill field trip last Sunday. > I also heard then saw one that afternoon at Lindsay-Parsons > > Suan > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
