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 Sept. 29, 2002 World Financial Center:

• 1 dead White-throated Sparrow, 3 WFC, 6:00 am 
• 1 captured and released White-throated Sparrow, 7:55 am. It aimed for the plants inside the South End Ave. entrance to 2 WFC. 
• 1 captured and released Black-throated Blue Warbler, crashed both into 3WFC and the Winter Garden 
• 1 female first-fall Blackpoll Warbler, 5 WFC/Mercantile Exchange. Her eye's swollen shut; she's resting in my kitchen. 
• 1 female Northern Parula, captured and released

The guards at WFC reported:  

• 1 injured hummingbird at 3 WFC last week that he had uprighted, which apparently later flew away 
• 1 dead bird at the Winter Garden.

Sept. 24, 2002

There was nothing dead or injured on my first stop at the WFC when I arrived at 5:45. Later, at 7:15 am:

• 1 stunned juvenile warbler - ? Maybe a Blackpoll? Released this afternoon in Inwood Hill Park.

From 7:15 until 8:00 I sat outside the WFC Winter Garden to observe bird activity; I could hear migrants calling in the trees. It was gruesome! Though no birds crashed hard enough to fall to the ground, I saw at least a dozen collisions, mostly from the treetops into nearby second-story office windows, which are highly reflective at that hour.

Nothing crashed into the Winter Garden atrium while I was there, but at least four White-throated Sparrows, a warbler, and a hummingbird headed for it, then swerved away at the last second. The guard there reported 3 dead last Thursday, and one injured that a concerned office worker took to New Jersey on the ferry to release.