[EBB Sightings] Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek

Not a lot to report here for the month of July, so far.  I was gone most of 
June and might have missed something, but probably not.  I have been seeing 
the juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk, a continuing Pied-billed Grebe.  One day I 
had a Coot, another a 3-heron day (Green Heron, Snowy Egret and 
Black-crowned Night-Heron), I had a Downy Woodpecker one day, and even had a 
Double-crested Cormorant a couple of days back.  This morning I had another 
3-heron day, but they were all Green Herons, at least one of which was 
juvenile.  Pretty much every year I see a Caspian Tern hunting over the 
large pond, but not yet this year. The last couple of weeks I have been 
seeing a Queenfisher pretty regularly, but today we had a Kingfisher.  I 
have not seen the Cliff Swallows since before we left on June 5.  The Barn 
Swallows continue, along with the occasional Oak Titmouse, White-breasted 
Nuthatch and Bushtits.  Had Western Bluebirds once near Ygnacio Valley Road 
along the south end of the new sports fields.

Hugh B. Harvey