[EBB Sightings] Heather Farms. Yellow-shafted Flicker

Eight intrepid friends and I looked for the Redhead and Ring-necked  
Duck in the rain this morning at Heather Farms -- alas, to no avail.   
However we were treated to a Yellow-shafted Flicker, which we watched  
first on a bare tree and later again picking something out of the  
grass, probably ants.  We also saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker on a  
poplar tree, Bufflehead on the pond, Fox Sparrow, and several other  
species until most of us were soaked and finally gave up.

Marilyn Trabert
Walnut Creek