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More Cuckoos Than Usual? Thank the Cicadas?

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Carol Schreter

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:16:49 EDT

I've been hearing Cuckoo around my house in NW Baltimore City for 10 days.
Unusual. Yesterday, June 7, I saw it. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo, eating Cicada.

I heard Cuckoo at Cylburn Park, June 3. Saw a pair of Cuckoo at Pleasant View
Golf Course on May 26. Bryce Butler has found multiple Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
nests at Oregon Ridge, his BBS territory. When is the safe date?

Are there more Cuckoos around, than usual? Because of the Cicadas? How do
they know that Cicadas are not found to our north, just across the Pennsylvania
line? For more info about Cicadas, go to
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Periodical/Index.html
or
www.cicadas.info
Carol Schreter
Baltimore, Md.