Key to Notation
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
In the monthly report, the following notation is used: number seen / date(s) seen followed by location and observer’s initials. For example: 3/6,15 Bowdoin ZZ indicates that observer ZZ saw 3 birds of this species on the 6th and 15th of the month in Bowdoin Park. 1-4/all Feeders Pok. XX indicates that observer XX had 1-4 birds of this species at feeders all month.
Abbreviations
| ad = adult | HRA = Hudson River Almanac | PokJnl = Poughkeepsie Journal |
| all = all month | HVRT = Harlem Valley Rail Trail (Amenia to Millerton) | pr = pair |
| AT =Appalachian Trail | IES = Institute of Ecosystem Studies (previously called Cary Arboretum) | PVly = Pleasant Valley |
| BBtrail (or BBT or BBtr) = Bluebird Trail | imm = immature | river = Hudson River |
| beg mth = beginning of month | incl = including | Prop = Property |
| CBC = Christmas Bird Count | Is = Island | Rbeck = Rhinebeck |
| Cem = Cemetery | ldg = landing | RHGC = Red Hook Golf Club |
| cgts = cygnets | LHVBA = Lower Hudson Valley Bird Alert | Rockefeller Fld St. = Rockefeller Field Station |
| CIES = Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | Lk =lake | ROM = Red Oaks Mill |
| Ck = Creek | MHB = Mid-Hudson Birds | ROVA = Roosevelt / Vanderbilt / Valkill |
| CNG = Clinton Nature Garden | mo = all month | RST = Riverside Trail |
| Cp = Camp | Mtn = Mountain | Beacon |
| CT = Class Trip | nr = near | Rsv =Reserve |
| DLC = Dutchess Land Conservancy | nstg = nesting | RUFS = Rockefeller University Field Station |
| end = end of month | NuclearL = Nuclear Lake | SDRT = Southern Dutchess Rail Trail |
| f = female | occ = occasional | sev = several |
| fders = feeders | p = pond | sm = small |
| FDR HS = FDR High School | Pawl = Pawling | sp = species unknown |
| FDRNHS - FDR National Historic Site (Hyde Park) | Pd = Pond | TofC = Town of Clinton |
| fldlg = fledgling | Pk =Park | ToS = Town of Stanford |
| fm = farm | Plns = Plains | Tpk = Turnpike |
| FOS = first of season | PlVal = Pleasant Valley | TSF = Southlands Farm |
| freq = frequently | plts = poults | w = with |
| FT = Field Trip | PNR - Pawling Nature Reserve | Wapp. (or Wapps) = Wappingers |
| GC = golf course | PoÕquag = Poughquag | WFC = Waterfowl Count |
| gslgs = goslings | PoJo = Poughkeepsie Journal | WMA = Wildlife Management Area |
| h = heard | Pok = Poughkeepsie | yd = yard |
| HAS = Housatonic Audubon Society | PokC = Poughkeepsie City | yg = young |
