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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Pat Hodgson on May 29, 2006, 10:20:13 AM

Title: yellow-billed cuckoo, Mt Pleasant Cem
Post by: Pat Hodgson on May 29, 2006, 10:20:13 AM

I have heard a few calls today and yesterday, putting them all together they add up to a heard-only yellow-billed cuckoo.  (calls heard include cu-cu, cu-cu, and a clear but rather weak k-k-k-k-kidow-kidow-kidow).  I cannot get a visual as the calls are very infrequent, also the bird may be going over the cemetary wall into private gardens.

The location is Plot O of Mt Pleasant Cemetary.  Plot O is in the west half, about halfway between Yonge and Mt Pleasant, on the south side.

Also several singing blackpoll warbler this morning in this area.

Title: Seems Likely
Post by: BIGFRANK on May 29, 2006, 11:44:57 AM

Hi Pat,each of the last 2 years in early to mid-June I saw a Cuckoo at MPC. One year it was Yellow-billed and the other a Black-billed. Ive no doubt thats what U have heard.