Today I saw so many bushtits. Just a whole mess of bushtits. I wrote 60 on my ebird report but it was easily 100. I haven't seen bushtits since summer! Not sure what they were doing here. It seems like they really like to live in flocks, and that those flocks travel, unlike their relative the chickadee that just seems to kinda stick around one area (some have been living in our tree and it's like their whole world is there and our feeder). But last time I saw a bushtit flock it was like 15 of them not 100, so idk what was up!
this is such bushtit
bushtitty
computer, enhance
I also saw some Golden-Crowned Sparrows and tried to take pictures of them and then all of them didn't turn out except this one and I'm looking at it and it's a goddamned Song Sparrow and I swear to god they were all Golden-Crowned Sparrows, like I watched five of them jumping around for a good bit, but I guess they were hanging out with this one Song Sparrow and my camera is gaslighting me.
song sparrows: not always this round
It was also just a beautiful foggy day. One of those days that is hauntingly, starkly beautiful in that way washington is good at. Check this shit out:
The fog just absolutely erased the horizon, so all the water photos look like things are floating in a total void.
Like these buffleheads should have a horizon in the photo but there's just nothing.
Oops: no horizon
unrelated: i really like something about this photo of a chestnut-backed chickadee
That's all, I just wanted to share some photos. You can see the ebird report for this trip here!
This made me nostalgic for the pacific northwest. Beautiful pics. Happy birdtime!