Observer: Eloise Bacher
Date: 19 October, 2008
Time: 1200-1220
Location: Botanical Garden
Weather: Cloudy, a little foggy/smoggy.

I'm walking out of the Botanical Garden and suddenly over my head sweeps a flock of Bushtits, I think. They're chattering away and settle on the plants on the other side of the bridge and the path from the garden. They fly to and fro, peeping softly. A few land on a rhodi near me. A Chickadee flies in suddenly, and clings to the needles on a coniferous tree that I don't know. That snapshot is reminiscent of Christmas for some reason, although it would need snow to make the image complete. Perhaps because chickadees are the ones that stick around with the juncoes through the winter, and they're the ones that hop through the snow looking for food instead of flying away.