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Re: Cuckoo question



Yellow-billed Cuckoos often call at night, especially in spring migration.

Robin Carter
Columbia, SC
rcarter@sc.rr.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shelley Theye" <veery@bellsouth.net>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:00 AM
Subject: Cuckoo question


> Hopefully this is not a cuckoo (aka silly) question!
> 
> I've been hearing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo(s)  calling in 
> the woods around my house for weeks now.  
> much more often, it seems, than in the past few years.  
> It is the call with a single repeated note, over 
> and over again.
> 
> Last night, with the windows open, I even heard it calling
> numerous times in complete darkness, somewhere between
> say midnight and 3 AM.
> 
> Is it that unusual to hear a Cuckoo calling in the middle of the night?
> 
> Shelley Theye
> 
> Shelley Theye
> N. Chatham County, NC
> veery@bellsouth.net
>