The NY Times has an average circulation exceeding 2,000,000 readers daily. And the story that ranked as “Most Popular” yesterday, amidst a deluge of daily news bleakness, was this one:
NY Times: Painted Bunting, a Rare Visitor to Brooklyn, Gives Birders Cause to Stare
“The object of fascination was a male painted bunting, an avian connoisseur of grassland never before seen in Brooklyn — and rarely found much north of Arkansas — that has drawn crowds of bird-watchers to Prospect Park since its discovery on Sunday.
“…for 30 breathtaking seconds, he put on a show, no binoculars necessary, flitting up into a bare serviceberry shrub, then darting right across the path to land in a patch of orange winterberries until a mockingbird swooped in and chased him off. Scott Schulman, the manager of LeFrak Center, who happened to wander up the hill just in time, looked around in wonder.
“That was remarkable, to say the least,” he said. “Wow.”
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