Hi all,
 Around noon I was walking out back to shoot some pictures of yard  birds 
and thinking to myself that as migration is about over, I'd have to wait  
till fall migration to hope for any new yard species. Just about that time  I 
thought I heard a chat chattering from the corner of the yard, then when I  
told my wife this, I saw a Baltimore Oriole leaving from the same area and  
decided that was probably what I heard. After shooting some pics of the Tree  
Swallows in a box in our backyard, I began hearing the chattering again so 
I  moved close to the fence and waited. After a bit, it began again, and 
after a  really long wait standing out in the hot sun, I was rewarded with a 
brief but  good look at yard bird #119, a male YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT!  It 
continued to  call off and on for at least an hour, and I went to the house and 
got my  daughter to help me look again. While it continued to call, we never 
did see it  again, but the habitat is good (mostly on the far side of the 
shrubby area  facing my neighbors farm fields) so maybe it will linger here. 
 
And yesterday morning I heard a calling cuckoo from afar but it never came  
closer to our yard so cannot tell which species it was. Just a distant 
calling  coo coo coo. I was hoping for Black-billed again, and maybe a nesting 
pair,  so I will continue to listen for them as well.
 
Happy Memorial Day,
 
Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD
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