Heydi Lopes just found a Le Conte's Sparrow at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. The bird is in a brushy just east of the Polytechnic baseball field. Coordinates are roughly 40.58399, -73.878069. Enter at the south entrance to Floyd Bennett, drive straight along that road until it bends to the left and at that bend take the dead end road to the right that runs alongside an old building. Park there. Looking towards the bay, there are a couple of low overgrown cement structures ahead of you, and an orange plastic fence that says "keep out" to the left. Access the field by walking around the right side of the cement structures, through the yellow jersey barrier. It was between the cement structure closest to the shore and the water.
The bird is very cooperative at times, eating well, and seems to prefer running around on the ground in view rather than flushing. The Cassin's Kingbird continues in the Community Garden as well. Good Birding, -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
