This past Saturday I led a trip for the Brooklyn Bird Club today to several coastal areas around Brooklyn. It wasn't a stellar day for birding given very strong north-west winds, but we still had some nice sightings. We started the morning at Dreier-Offerman Park (Calvert Vaux) then headed east to Plum Beach, followed by Dead Horse Bay then finished our day at Floyd Bennett Field.
Our first unusual sight of the day occurred at Dreier-Offerman. We had just parked the cars and were headed down the path when Michael Yuan spotted an extremely cooperative Yellow-billed Cuckoo perched 3 feet off the ground and only about 15 feet away. It allowed ridiculously long, close looks before eventually flying across the path and into more dense cover. These cuckoos aren't considered rare in New York, they are just very secretive and are usually identified by their throaty "ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, kow, kowp, kowp, kowp, kowp" call
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