[EBB Sightings] Yellow-bellied Sapsucker continues in Concord

This morning (Tues, Dec 19), the male YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER continued at 
Newhall Community Park in Concord.

After twice missing the sapsucker that wintered here last year, I spent 
over an hour and a half this morning sapsucker-hunting.  I walked down past 
the second duck pond, checking out various trees with sapsucker holes.  I 
had set a time limit of 12:30 when I had to leave.  At 12:45, I returned to 
my car and was packing up my binoculars, when I looked up to see the 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker about 10 feet from my car foraging (probably for 
insects) in the oaks near the parking lot.  (This is the parking lot at the 
end of Newhall Parkway.)  I haven't had a bird play this trick on me for a 
while, so I guess I was due.  I had good long looks once I retrieved by 
binos.  Although the white on the wing is not prominent on this bird, the 
bright red throat is unmistakable.  He was last seen flying off downstream 
towards the area where he's usually been seen.

Best of the rest included:
Green Heron
Cooper's Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Lincoln's Sparrow
Fox Sparrow

Good birding,
--
Laura Look
Pinole, CA