Date: 10/13/26 12:56 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 10/13 Black-billed Cuckoo in Fenway Victory Gardens at 1:30 p.m.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for the following report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough,MA <barb620...>
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:17:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 10/13 Black-billed Cuckoo in Fenway Victory Gardens at 1:30 p.m.
Hi, I had already been birding in the gardens for three hours when I decided to go down the very short ROW F. I had only gone fifteen steps or so, when a bird landed on a fence quite close to me. I immediately put up my binoculars. I was so stunned by there being a cuckoo right in front of me that it didn't immediately register with me that the cuckoo with the all black bill was a Black-billed Cuckoo. Almost immediately a Blue Jay, and then a Northern Flicker flew down next to the bird, which caused it to fly off to presumably somewhere else within the gardens.
Great Blue Heron 1 without the gardens, but along the Muddy River Green-winged Teal 1 monuments area Wood Duck 5 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 in their favorite tree, i.e. the willow near the end of Row O Eastern Phoebe 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Blackpoll Warbler 3 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 1 continuing for four days now; end of Row C; also near very small silver maple grove White-throated Sparrow 13 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 3
