Gene Hunn wrote

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

I have heard from participants that Victor Emmanual says that the average
Bushtit flock is 13. I could never get the little guys to stay still long
enough to count them. Shall we start a numerology study?
I have never had Bushtits come to the suet. I have also noticed that they
will often hang out with the Golden-crowned Kinglets. Or vice versa.


Jim Rosso
Issaquah
206-392-8440