There had been some reports of Cuckoos at the Milwaukee County Grounds so I decided to put that on one of my early birding stops for the day. When I arrived there was a Yellow-billed Cuckoo right in a tree near the parking lot. It was about 100 feet away getting out of my car. It was feeding on scrub brush getting a caterpillar on occasion while I was there. It was still early and cloudy too but I was able to get one photo of a species I only see once a year in spring if I’m lucky. I looked for a a while and found a Black-billed Cuckoo but that bird was far away perched in a tree that held a lot of branches so it was a bird to look at with bins, but still cool too. It was overcast, breeze out of the east and temps around 46 degrees. Images were taken on May 22, 2025.
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo…
