The bird that organizes the winter woods. Find a chickadee flock and the nuthatches,
kinglets and woodpeckers are usually with it.

Never one bird. A Bushtit arrives as a flock of twenty, strips a shrub in ninety
seconds, and is gone.

The chickadee of the fir trees. The same shape and the same restless energy as a
Black-capped, but with a warm chestnut back — and a voice that has lost the whistle.