This is a checklist/field guide to the birds of Foothill campus, that I have observed.
The American Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) is a very small round brown and gray bird with a long tail and short stubby bills. Males and females are similar, but females have pale eyes and males have dark eyes.
Bushtits often travel in mixed species flocks with chickadees, kinglets, wrens, and other small songbirds. Pairs begin to separate from flocks in ...more ↓