I pulled into a friend's driveway the other day, and exiting the car I heard this distinctive sound:
It's the first yellow-billed cuckoo I've heard in a long time. There's a child-like part of me that gets excited - activated - whenever I hear a bird (or see one) that I haven't heard or seen since my childhood. To add to the interest, apparently yellow-billed cuckoos are known as storm crows or rain crows (I never knew this, even as a kinda-birder) due to their tendency to call shortly before thunderstorms. Well, here in New England it's been about as humid as can possibly be, and shortly after meeting with my friend, there was a gully-washer of a thunderstorm. Cool!
Any similar recent encounters? From those of you in different parts of the country, or the world? We need some small joys in these difficult times, so let's hear 'em. Passerines, raptors, corvids (NOT covids).... whaddya got?
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