Alas, no Black-backed Woodpeckers today (not that I didn't spend the whole morning searching). This might very well be the first Long Island record of this elusive bird which leaves its northern nesting ground every few years but rarely comes this far south. Derek Rogers tells me that there was one photographed on Nantucket Island in 2009 and I saw one in Eastern Pennsylvania (just over the New Jersey line near the Delaware Water Gap) about 15 years ago.
A few new birds came in, notably a small flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers working the areas all along the marsh, pond and creek edge and, one of my favorite fall birds, Blue-headed Vireo. Other birds of note (already seen this season) were Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Swamp Sparrow, Royal Tern and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. And a Screech Owl calling for the past two nights but invisible in the day.
Eric Salzman
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