Yes, the comorants have returned and I didn't realize I'd missed them We have one post that usually has a blue heron on it but sometime last month a sea gull started occasionally beating the heron to it and now most mornings when I look out, there's a comorant on it and I saw a second/mate too around.

I bought a couple of silly looking, colorful, bird houses I hung on the lattice that is shaping my pyracantha in the front yard. I'm hoping for purple/house finches to take up residence.