I had the bird in flight heading northwest over the Bleecker Street playground at about 3 PM today. I thought it was heading towards the Washington Street location but did not find it there - though there were many American Robins and starlings feeding in the trees there.
Good Birding, Corey Finger On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Shai Mitra, Joan Quinlan and I arrived in the West Village at 10:46 a.m. > in conditions that felt oppressive--21 degrees, overcast skies and > constant light snow. At least it wasn't very windy. We found no kingbird > and no watchers at Jane and Washington Streets, nor at the Bleeker > Playground area. At W. 4th and 11th we found two birders, Eric and > Rodney, on site but no sign of the kingbird. We spent some time walking > adjacent blocks. At 11:40 the Couch's Kingbird appeared in the top of a > tree at 11th and 4th calling repeatedly. It remained there for several > minutes, long enough for a total of six birders (incuding us, Eric and > Rodney) to assemble, before retreating to a roof top garden and then > flying off to the northwest. We tried unsuccessfully to relocate the > bird for another 30 minutes, then departed for Long Island. > > A 50 minute search at Floyd Bennett Field failed to reveal the Cassin's > Kingbird but we did find a Common Yellowthroat in the community gardens. > A pot of mealworms was left in the picnic area for enjoyment by "Mr. > Cassin's" by "Karen", thank you, Karen. Perhaps scattering some of these > in the gardens would be a good idea too, something we probably should > have done but didn't. > > Patricia Lindsay > Bay Shore > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
