Golden-crowned Kinglet - Central Park, NYC

[Donkees]

Ruben Giron

[riversedge]

1. Majestic. Thanks for photos.

[Elysium]

2. These are great photos...

of a very difficult bird to photograph. They never stop moving!
I am still waiting to get shots half as good as these.

[Probatim]

4. For non-birders here, Elysium's comment is 100% correct.

These little guys never sit still. They are, however, gregarious and curious and will come fairly close if you are "pishing" at them - within arm's length isn't uncommon for me. And they feed in small flocks. Showing a new birder how active they are when they're only feet away from you is always fun to share.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. even with the larger birds, as soon as i spot them, they split.

[Donkees]

5. Excerpt: 'Confiding Kinglet in Central Park'

On a recent walk through Central Park we were distracted, charmed, and entertained by a Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa that was exploring each and every part of a fence for bugs, it was rather simple to figure out that if we placed ourselves ahead of it along the fence it was foraging on it would come right past, so we did and it did, within inches. Then we moved past the kinglet and waited again, and then we did it again, and again. It was a game one could never grow tired of simply because watching a four-inch bird that sometimes hangs upside-down, sometimes hover-gleans, and is completely unconcerned about one’s presence is amazing.





Corey is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.

[lark]

3. What a handsome little bird!

Thank you for sharing these beauties with us!