If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)

10/19/02 Fishing access area off Ramp Road, Bridgeport Lake, 
Bridgeport, Mono County, CA 
5/4/02 San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, Orange County, CA
12/11/11 Male bushtit in our garden. La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

2/10/18 Male gleaning insects off of a Dr. Hurd Manzanita in our garden.
La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Bushtit

SPECIES: Psaltriparus minimus 

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/8/1998

LOCATION: San Dimas Canyon Nature Center, Los Angeles County, CA

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 3 1/2"; tiny and gray; tiny beak (top of upper mandible strongly curved); long tail. Coastal birds are light with gray-brown cap; interior birds are dark with a brownish cheek; southwest males or juveniles may have black cheek patch. In all morphs, males have dark eyes and females have light yellow eyes.

VOICE: Song is a high-pitched trill; calls include short tseep and tsip, possibly given as contact notes when the flock moves about. 
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