[EBB Sightings] Red-breasted sapsuckers at Sunol Regional Wilderness

This morning a hermit thrush was kicking around in the leaves next to the parking spaces by the footbridge at Sunol Regional Wilderness. I crossed the bridge - after waiting for a young, silvery-gray raccoon to notice me and hurry off - and turned right (south) onto Indian Joe Trail. Shortly, the trail splits in a "Y", and I took the leg that heads down to the creek. Near the top of a very large tree to the right of the trail, which has snaggy sections in the middle of it riddled with acorn holes, I found two red-breasted sapsuckers vocalizing as they shimmied up the trunk together. On the other side of the trail, by the picnic table under the huge oak, another hermit thrush was foraging, and more than one busy but curious ruby-crowned kinglet paused to drop down to a branch low enough to check me out. 

Stephanie Floyd
Fremont