Walter,
   Interesting that you should mention the abundance of tent caterpillars and cuckoos. Just the opposite is the case here. Tent caterpillars have been very scarce and likewise cuckoos.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD


---- Walter Ellison <> wrote: 
On MD-51 Nancy found an early fledgling BLACK-BILLLED CUCKOO. If there was bird emblematic of the weekend it was Yellow-billed Cuckoo, we had over 30 of them including several sightings; they were seldom out of earshot in wooded areas. The tent caterpillars are at their peak now and that correlates well with the numbers of cuckoos we encountered. It was a tiring, but productive and birdy, weekend.