![]() ![]() A month or so ago, when my friend Joe showed me the nest he’d found, we watched the birds ferrying bits of fuzz and what we speculated were oak flowers, adding them thoughtfully to the growing blob.īushtits were some of the first birds I learned to identify when I started bird-watching, in 2016, armed with what seems to be the standard guide in these parts. ![]() ![]() Made out of spiderwebs, fur, lichen, and plant material, they hang down from a couple of branches like a strange-looking sock with a side entrance near the top. Their nests, though, are well hidden, and they’re different from what most people would expect. I usually become aware of them by noticing a chorus of peeping in part of an oak tree that seems to be jiggling. B ushtits-almost impossibly tiny gray birds that live in flocks across the western United States-are not hard to spot in the Bay Area. ![]()
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