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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