Hi Karen, I find the Yellow-billed Cuckoo to be considerably harder to find than the Black-billed, but I do find them at times at Lebanon Hills and Miesville Ravine parks, where I suspect that they nest. I found one on Sunday just north of the visitors' center at Lebanon Hills in the trees adjacent to a small, small pond. I also thought I heard an abreviated call from one about a mile away, right near where I had seen a pair two or three years ago.
Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan swest...@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Schik" <ksc...@fmr.org> To: <mou-...@cbs.umn.edu> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: [mou] Yellow-billed cuckoo, Somerset WI > How uncommon is it to see a YBCU around the metro area? I saw one > yesterday about a mile east and south of Marine on St Croix (yes, in > WI). Very cool! > > Great area to see prothonotaries too - thick along the river backwaters. > > > -- > ________________________________ > Karen Schik > Restoration Ecologist > Friends of the Mississippi River > 46 East 4th Street, Suite 606 > Saint Paul MN 55101-1112 > > Phone 651/222-2193 ext 15 > Fax 651/222-6005 > > http://www.fmr.org > > Are you receiving "Mississippi Messages," FMR's monthly e-mail update > with information about FMR events, volunteer opportunities, and news > on river-related issues? To subscribe, visit > http://www.fmr.org/update.html. > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > mou-...@cbs.umn.edu > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net