Subject: Re: Bushtits
Date: Oct 13 15:03:24 1995
From: Alan Richards - alanr at ednet1.osl.or.gov




Eric Craig, 10/12/95, wrote:
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>"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
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I am wondering about this too, because
1) we gen'ly have a suet feeder out all winter
2) we have only seen Bushtits in our yard 3x in 9 years --
always along river bank, in groups / bunches of a dozen or
so. Maybe it's too wet in Naselle?

Alan Richards / Naselle WA
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