Hi all- Sorry this is a little late... I'm only in town a short while and had to subscribe.
On Tuesday May 31 my sister and I found a Barred Owl at Crosby Farm Park in Saint Paul. The bird was at the west end entrance not too far from the path that leads toward the lake there, and was both calling during daylight (a muted hoo-hoo, very dove-like) and easily visible. It watched us watch it a while before moving away. On the path that goes around the lake, at a point where a short, wide wooden bridge crosses a sort of canal, I heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo go off briefly. We couldn't find the bird to see if, however. Jesse -- Jesse Ellis, Ph. D. candidate Neurobiology and Behavior jm...@cornell.edu 111 Mudd Hall Cornell University Ithaca, 14853 "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt "The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for robin, and now there are robins all over their villages." --John McCain, on global warming