I hope you don’t ask me for a print of this photo 😉. It is at the edge between going to the trash and keeping for the records and I admit it is not very sharp. The reason I like to show it anyway is the fact that I never have seen a Black-billed Cuckoo before and didn’t even know that we were in its breeding range during the summer.
As often during my lunch break I took the dog for a little ride to a nearby location and today I checked a meadow to see if any Bobolinks were already present (found actually three males). At the edge of the prairie-like grasslands is a little grove of cottonwoods and that’s where the Black-billed Cuckoo was discovered. We are more familiar with the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, who is present in our woods during the summer season. Although this year we haven’t seen or heard one yet. Both species are not very common and it makes me happy to add another bird to my list of sightings.