As a clarification, the first Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers seen arriving at Central Park, in Manhattan, N.Y. City were observed, reported to eBird (where confirmed) and some also photographed, as well as seen by multiple additional experienced observers over recent good migration days. The first of “fall” season sightings *for Central Park* did not take place as-of Tuesday, Sept. 21. It is of course quite possible that any number of individual birders / reporters saw their *personal-first* of the fall season on the latter date, and also that some are yet to observe that fairly common annual migrant and winter-visitant species at that site. Personal first-of-season, or first-of-year, & etc., are a different matter to *” (first-of-season for the park) “* in a report to this or other lists. So, to clarify, among the hundreds of observers out birding in Central Park in the past week with great waves of arriving fall-migrants, some, and in a number of publicly-accessible reports in this past week -now confirmed and archived- noted the species prior to Tuesday, 9/21. Just as one example, at least a half-dozen observers (with combined birding-experience of more than a century, all exceedingly familar with the noted species), observed & reported that species on Monday, 9/20 within Central Park, some of the observations having been made in the Ramble of that park. Those, and a number of additional reports, are now archived at eBird.
good birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
