Like Karl Stecher I live in the west end of Centennial, and like Karl I get regular visits from bushtits throughout the year. I estimated this morning's flock between 12 and 2,481. Sometimes an hour or so after a flock moves through I get another wave, and I wonder if there are several flocks in this area. There've been days I've had four waves go through, of course there are many days I see none. A couple of blue jays were haranguing for peanuts this morning so I threw a handful onto the deck, pretty much directly below them. The holes in the snow where the nuts landed were quite visible, depth of the snow was about 2 inches. A jay dropped down about a foot from where the nuts had landed and started shovelling snow by sweeping his head through it side-to-side, but as he moved about he never moved towards the holes where the nuts were and consequently didn't find any. He finally gave up and flew away, joined by his buddies. And as a final note for this snowy morning, the quiet around the feeders earlier this morning was explained by my wife, who'd been up a while before me: "Your buddy was here this morning"; my buddy being an adult male sharp-shinned who's been patrolling the neighborhood lately. Keep Smilin', Kevin Corwin west Centennial near Holly & Arapahoe Arapahoe County
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