A couple of bushtits.

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  1. Kildale

    Kildale Nature's Window

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    These travel in groups of 20 or more and get on very well with each other. Here are a male and a female.

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    Female bushtit. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
    Female Bushtit
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    male bushtit. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
    Male bushtit.
     
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  3. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I love these little birds. They remind me of pom-poms with faces. legs and tails. :D
     
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    How cute. I could just have a batch of 20 of them in my yard. I would make friends with them very quickly.

    There is a guy in Niagara Falls, NY (probably dead by now) who had all the birds land on him to get feed. He let me feed them one time and I had birds sitting all over me when I held my arms out. They sat on my arms hands and even my head. They clung on my back and front. I was covered with little birds.

    Wouldn't that be cool with these little Bushtit?

    Barb in Pa.
     
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    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    My thoughts exactly. :D Our tits scold me for not bringing breakfast early enough. They're cute birds.
     



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  6. Jerry Sullivan

    Jerry Sullivan Garden Experimenter Plants Contributor

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    They do look fuzzy warm and a lot of them would brighten up any morning.
    Nice pix Kildale.

    Jerry
     
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    They come twenty or more at a time.
     
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    So cute and fluffy. They almost don't look real.
     
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    They are cute and not much bigger than a hummingbird.
     

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