CLOSED: American Bushtit

Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b)

This lovely small bird has been busily creating a sock-like nest in the cedar tree for the past month. It's literally where I have my morning smoke & coffee but I've adjusted that to accommodate them. A neighbour mentioned Bushtit so I looked it up here and it does look right, but I'm not bird experience.

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Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b)

The nest has moss, lichen, bits of tissue paper, etc all cleanly woven together with a few of the branches, and, if you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't see it. I'm surprised they'd build their new condo right above the cement path to my house with so much human traffic constantly going only 3' underneath. It's also right downtown only blocks from the recent Stanley Cup Riots in Vancouver. I'm taken by their craftsmanship and determination.

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Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a)

Yep, American Bushtit is right.

Resin

PS it'll do you good to give up the smoke ;-)

Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b)

lol. ya, I guess it would.

So, should I add the nest pic to the BF?

Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a)

No reason why not!

Resin

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