The Elusive Bushtit

I’m continuing to try photographing the urban avifauna of Davis, and am learning how bird species differ in their challenges in photographing them. Bushtits are pretty common, but move through shrubbery in a very active flock. It is quite hard to catch one in the viewfinder before it disappears behind a branch. Still, yesterday I walked through the Arboretum and managed to take several good frames of bushtits in a flock at eye level.

Pica and I have a joke that bushtit flocks always come in sizes that are prime numbers.