Individuals of our local Bushtit flock, foraging for insects in a fir tree
Seattle, Washington • Just outside our flat
Olympus E-M1 + Zuiko 50-200mm • 1/800 • f5 • ISO 800
Bushtit Stories:
- This piece about Bushtit flock fidelity starts with a anecdote about how a Bushtit flock waited for their flock member as she was being banded: Free Love? Mating Patterns in Bushtits
- Short Birdnote audio piece about Bushtits who “weigh about as much as four paper clips”: Bushtits on Birdnote
- In our era of declining songbird numbers, Bushtits know how to expand into our environments: The Little Bushtit and the Big City
This is not the best photo … shot the next day in the rain, in an adjacent tree. But it shows one of our “Class of 2014″ flock babies … being fed an insect, upside down, the Bushtit way.
Source : thewildbeat[dot]com