Hi all in  Reply to Bills Question Yellow Billed Cuckoo went out 
of safe dates on  July 31 there is a safe date chart  in the atlas handbook 
. The fact  they  are  out of safe dates   makes a  x possible  or any 
probables  no longer possible.  But any Confrimed species does count  check  
there again and  maybe get a confrim.   Your sighting does suggest that they 
are nesting    but not good enough for the atlas  On  July  15   in my 
Centreville  CW block I was checking with optics   from the  car and a safe 
distance  a nest in a pine tree when a  yellow Billed Cuckoo  few into the 
nearby branch hopped up to the nest  carrying food  and followed  by a 
second adult .  I could make out young begging  in the nest .
hope this helps .


Danny Poet
Queenstown  , Md



>From: Bill Schreitz <>
>Reply-To: Bill Schreitz <>
>To: 
>S  ubject: [MDOSPREY] Yellow-billed Cuckoo
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:58:05 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>foraging yellow-billed cuckoo.      I saw it rise from the tree with a 
>captured catepiller, fly directly over me, rise another thirty feet , and 
>continue in a straight line over the pine forest .
>
>From my line graph chart, it appears that we are past the safe dates for 
>breeding Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  Is there another chart, much like the list 
>of priority hands in poker (e.g. full house over flush) that one might use 
>in the probable category?  Certainly, any confirmed status trumps 'safe 
>dates'.  What about examples of probable status?  Do they trump 'safe 
>dates' as well?
>
>Bill
>
>
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