Subject: Bushtit Report--Southern Sector
Date: Jan 10 10:01:41 1996
From: Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net - Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net


Ray Korpi wrote

>There's nothing like a little sunshine to get one feeling better. As I
>walked outisde a few minutes ago, there was a flock of about 25 bushtits,
>and smack in the middle of them was a single black-capped chickadee.
>Chickadees aren't hard to find in some of the park areas just north of
>campus, but I don;t see them on campus very often. Another lesson
>learned with regard to these winter flocks--always double check. RK

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>Ray Korpi

Thinking back on the postings regarding the number of birds in a bushtit
flock unit (somewhere between 12 and 17). In California on the CBC's we
also used to add one ruby-crowned kinglet to the standard estimate of a
bushtit flock unit.

--Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net