[EBB Sightings] Red-breasted Sapsucker and Phainopepla at Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, Antioch

Today during a lunchtime visit to Black Diamond Mines R. P. we  
observed a Red-breasted Sapsucker and a female Phainopepla.  The  
sapsucker was first observed flying among the Ailanthus trees that  
surround the upper parking lot.  The Phainopepla was observed midway  
along a trail that leaves the picnic area on the west side of the  
parking lot and proceeds south, paralleling the maintenance road from  
the parking lot.  (We could not find a name for this short trail.)   
Along this trail we also refound the sapsucker.  In the past we have  
observed a female Phainopepla eating mistletoe berries in a large  
coast live oak tree located on the west side of the upper parking lot.

Good birding,

Paul and Nancy Schorr, Antioch