At Central Park, in Manhattan, N.Y. City the first sightings, by multiple highly experienced observers with reports submitted in eBird and confirmed there, of Hooded Merganser -two individuals on the reservoir- were from Wednesday, Oct. 25 this autumn season. Some sightings, in various fora, are occasionally reported as first-of, when the reporter intends the meaning as first of their own personal observation of the year, or of the season, and not first for the location by any persons.
There were, as on every recent day at Central Park, a broad rainbow of observers and photographers of at least one Yellow-breasted Chat that has been continuing thru Thursday. Some great photos were again made of one on Thursday 10/26 in the chat-location, and said photos are available to all of the public in eBird, thus also archived in the Macaulay Libray, which are of course not-for-profit institutions/organizations. 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/ --
