Last Saturday, Kai Sheffield found a Cassin’s Kingbird out at Floyd Bennett Field. Scores of birders tried to find it last Sunday.  So, it was great to see a tweet from Rob Jett that the bird had been refound in the Community Gardens of Floyd Bennett Field this Saturday.

When I got out to Floyd Bennett Field there were about 35 birders looking for the bird.  Almost all of them got great view of the rare bird found normaly in the southwest of the United States.

I spent Saturday bird watching rather than hawk watching and like earlier in the week got mesmerized by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are enjoying feeding on the Jewelweed flowers in Central Park this season, and occasionally rest on branches nearby.  This young bird rested on the same branch every five minutes or so, sometimes staying only a few seconds but sometimes stayed for as long as two minutes.

The highlight of my bird watching Labor Day weekend was a very cooperative Hudsonian Godwit (a large sandpiper). The bird was on the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.  It was a new bird for my “life list”.

The bird breeds in Tundra locations in Alaska and Canada and winters on the Atlantic coast of South America.