[EBB Sightings] Yell.-bellied Sapsucker at Newhall Park in Concord

This Saturday morning between 9:00 and 10:00 AM, I spotted a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at 
Newhall Community Park in Concord. I entered the park from the Turtle Creek Road parking lot just 
NW of Ayers Rd. (Ayers road intersects Ygnacio Valley Road).  I crossed the park to the eastern 
parking lot and immediately spotted the Sapsucker in the decidous trees next to the lot. During 
the next 3/4 hour it forraged along the west side of the creek on different decidous trees located 
between the eastern parking lot and the first downstream duck pond. During the last 15 minutes, 
the Sapsucker stayed in one spot on a tree behind the small maintenance building and I was able to 
watch it with a scope from 30 feet away with the sun on my back. It lacked a red nape, had a 
complete black border around its red chin, 2 broad white horizontal eye stripes, and the white 
back stripes were checkered with horizontal bars.

Other woodpeckers in the area were Nuttall's and Northern Flicker plus a Green Heron was in the 
Creek.

--Ted Robertson--