After originally spotted 244 in GWC south, kite drifted South over Kensington and Ditmas Park neighborhoods.
Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) (1)
- Reported May 21, 2026 13:48 by Richard Fleming
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S3
- Comments: "Adult. Still rare-ish but now an annual and indisputably increasing climate-change opportunist with a well-established late May window of movement. Unique-in-our-region battleship-gray raptor with chalky-white crown and face, both features seen well for a good fifteen to twenty seconds, long enough to switch from binoculars to camera, realize some setting or condition was incorrect and the camera wouldn't focus, and then switch back to binoculars and still have time to savor the observation of the bird before it swung out of view to the east. I noted also structure that to my eye often recalls a mid-sized more bouyant gull, until the long and sharp-corned tail causes a double-take and the realization that you are seeing a kit
- Reported May 21, 2026 13:48 by Richard Fleming
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S3
- Comments: "Adult. Still rare-ish but now an annual and indisputably increasing climate-change opportunist with a well-established late May window of movement. Unique-in-our-region battleship-gray raptor with chalky-white crown and face, both features seen well for a good fifteen to twenty seconds, long enough to switch from binoculars to camera, realize some setting or condition was incorrect and the camera wouldn't focus, and then switch back to binoculars and still have time to savor the observation of the bird before it swung out of view to the east. I noted also structure that to my eye often recalls a mid-sized more bouyant gull, until the long and sharp-corned tail causes a double-take and the realization that you are seeing a kit
Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) (1)
- Reported May 21, 2026 14:48 by chel sea
- Hello MODO, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6598028,-73.9808692&ll=40.6598028,-73.9808692
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S343549773
- Comments: "Thank you Richard F. for the alert, which prompted us to quickly scramble out of the window onto roof to see a falcon-like bird drifting south-ish over Kensington/Ditmas Park area. Fanned tail, elongated wings. Unfortunately no photos, just brief views before it went out of sight. Sighting & timing align with Richard’s alert, and Zach and Jeff’s subsequent sightings in the area."
- Reported May 21, 2026 14:48 by chel sea
- Hello MODO, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6598028,-73.9808692&ll=40.6598028,-73.9808692
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S343549773
- Comments: "Thank you Richard F. for the alert, which prompted us to quickly scramble out of the window onto roof to see a falcon-like bird drifting south-ish over Kensington/Ditmas Park area. Fanned tail, elongated wings. Unfortunately no photos, just brief views before it went out of sight. Sighting & timing align with Richard’s alert, and Zach and Jeff’s subsequent sightings in the area."
"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring." — Rachel Carson
"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"
David Attenborough
100 years old May 8th
"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"
David Attenborough
100 years old May 8th
