Subject: Re: Bushtits
Date: Oct 12 13:10:34 1995
From: kraig at wln.com - kraig at wln.com



>"It was a joke, an old "Rich Stallcup story" from California, that he
>claimed they always came in flocks of 17."

We always seem to use "forty" as the generic bushtit measure. On
Christmas counts: "Hey, I've got a flock of bushtits." "How many?"
"Oh, forty."

We have at least forty bushtits using our yard in the winter, and
plenty of suet, but the two never meet. We're out in semi-rural
Thurston County. Could there be an urban locale/suet eaters
connection here?

Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
kraig at wln.com