Re: Blackbilled Cuckoo at Battery-Kemble

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Gail, 

You left before we arrived!!  Nice view.  

We heard the bird calling during Ottavio's field trip, which started at 7
am.  It seemed to go where we were heading, i.e. it didn't want to be near
us.  Finally, I called it in with an imitation call, and it flew to a
position about 150 + feet away, but facing away from us, with the sun ~30
degrees directly above it.  Talk about a poor view.  It kept calling, then
flew off never to be seen (but still to be heard) again.  

Rob Hilton
robert@csa.com
Bethesda

At 09:30 AM 5/2/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Barry and I went down to Battery Kemble Park, DC, this early am to look for
>a Black-billed Cuckoo that has been hanging around for a few days (found by
>Ottavio Janni). We first heard it and then got excellent looks as it sat in
>a large cherry tree, calling OO-oo-oo, OO-oo-oo... We got there around 6:30.

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