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Friday, June 20, 2014

Backyard Birding 2

While I was waiting for the Anna's Hummingbird to check in yesterday our yard was visited by a whole flock of these little Bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus). Next to hummingbirds these are North America's smallest birds. The one pictured above is marked as a female by her striking light-colored eye. On the left is a male who seems to be showing off for a female. I don't know what these Bushtits were finding to eat on the pine branches but they worked them over pretty thoroughly before they moved on.

2 comments:

William Kendall said...

Nicely captured in both cases! They look quite distinctive.

Stephanie said...

Nicely captured with the plant.