Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)
We walked on Seneca Bluffs Trail today, parking in the area on Montevideo Road between River Road and Rocklands Farm Winery. We walked downstream, although for most of that part of the trail Seneca Creek isn’t very visible. This section of the trail is on the top of the bluffs in fairly deep woods. We heard quite a few different birds, including several vireos. One bird that we didn’t hear but then suddenly saw, was this yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). It flew across the trail ahead of us and landed behind some branches. I got a few pretty poor photos of it there before it flew to this more exposed location. The strong back-lighting takes away considerably from the photo, but I was still excited to get what I got. These are not the easiest birds to spot in the woods.