[EBB Sightings] White-tailed Kite just outside Heather Farm

This morning, just before midday, Shirley Ellis and I were sitting near the 
footbridge at the north end of Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek.  I had 
seen a crow sitting on the bare top of a pine tree next to our homeowner's 
association swimming pool.  When I looked later, it looked as though 
something white was sitting up there.  Sure enough, it was a White-tailed 
Kite.  Darn, it was less than 100 yards from the park.  Still, this is south 
of Treat Boulevard and west of Bancroft.

They have been seen in the past along Shell Ridge, as well as west of John 
Muir Hospital and south of Ygnacio Valley Road.

Though I missed it, Shirley told me that she had a Townsend's Warbler near 
the bottom of the big hill in the park.  I had told her about the two Snipes 
in the ditch near the footbridge, but of course, by the time we were there, 
the birds were not.  The Kite more than made up for their absence.

Hugh B. Harvey