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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 

Get to witness their 

long 

Tails, their button eyes. 

Short

Is life, passing by; 

Am still hoping that 

you 

Choose to look to the 

sky, 

And not the 

ground

You need 

to                            Up.

look

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