Co-birders,
I thought I would share the newest information on the Louviers Cuckoos since I have had many requests from so many of you. On Memorial Day, I hosted a group where we first found the Fall Cankerworm starting to infest the Box Elder trees in the closed section of the Dupont Open Space. On June 5th, I was able to locate for the second year in a row a pair of the cuckoos in the trees. On June 11th, I hosted another group of about ten birders, where we were able to locate a pair and witness copulation. the trees were starting to be defoliated, many worms. On June 15th, Harriet Stratton, Marilyn Rhodes and I were able to find the nest and observe female on nest for over an hour. On June 16th, Harriet Stratton witnessed again on the nest. On June 18th, I checked nest at 7:30-10:30am from safe distance and no cuckoo on nest and no calls. Most of the worms are gone, maybe knocked off by heavy rain on Friday, but some trees as tall as 50feet, totally defoliated. Today, Checked night nest site from 6:30-7:30am and again at 5:00-6:00pm, no cuckoo. Will keep checking all week and will inform group if they are located again. Disappointed in Louviers Tom Halverstadt http://www.flickr.com/photos/thavs1/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
