BIODIVERSITY
Bushtit
Psaltriparus minimus
You never see just one bushtit. In Spring, you can see pairs, building their long pendulous nests. At every other time of year you see five, ten, twenty, perhaps even more tiny little bushtits flying from branch to branch across campus in a constantly chirping cloud.
Video Credit: Henry Zylstra
MARGARET TAYLOR
Bushtit
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Little acrobats,
up
In branches, looking
down
At those keeping eyes
low
Instead of looking
high.
They are not truly
there
Until all of you
hear
Then they are ev'ry-
where.
Small smudges of brown
over-
Head, mixed with warblers
under-
Neath the green leaves ad
their
Chirps fill the air, but
your
Ears deaf to them, and
you
Miss their soft down, and
I
Get to witness their
long
Tails, their button eyes.
Short
Is life, passing by;
I
Am still hoping that
you
Choose to look to the
sky,
And not the
ground.
You need
to Up.
look
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