The title is bushtits except that the pictures are of my peas. Peas with funny marks on their leaves. Last year I saw the California towhees eating the new growth buds on my peas and commented here that I should plant more peas because the towhees probably needed something to eat in the winter when there are not a lot of bugs around. Having more insect eating birds to me is a good thing. So this year, I did just that. I spent a whole extra 1.89$ for more pea seeds … for the birds.
When we got rain a little while ago and I was opening up my “tinfoil fruit” I also planted peas around the base of some of my trees.
Something has obviously been munching a bit on them and I was looking at them today and noticed triangular marks… beak marks. Well I think that the marks are beak marks. They are too fine and narrow to be a towhee. My guess is that the marks are from the bushtits which are still around. The thing that amuses me the most is that these peas are at the very tree where I was watching the bushtits hop around right in front of my face, a couple of months ago, eating aphids.
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