ML126654841
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Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
Continuing 1st NY state record - Perched mostly in the top of the fire escape at 245 W 11th. Many photos. Seen coughing up two pellets of reddish berries. Flew from fire escape twice but returned. Heard calling twice in flight. After failing to find it on the 29th, my friends and I were able to see the Couch’s Kingbird on December 30th a little after 2pm. The Couch’s spent almost the entire time we watched it perched on the top of a fire escape at 245 W 11th (quite a strange place to see any birdlife, much less a rare kingbird). The bird did make multiple sallying flights out for food, and we saw it cough up two pellets of reddish berries. We were also happy to hear it belt out it’s distinctive call multiple times. On a completely unrelated note, we also met comedian H. Jon Benjamin (voice of Archer) while we were watching the kingbird, and he seemed mildly interested in how and why the bird was hanging out in New York City.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1605 pixels x 1078 pixels
- Original file size
- 894.43 KB