Painted in spring colours! I saw some of these bushtits – amazingly tiny birds – late last fall and I think they’re back! Spring comes early here in Vancouver and proceeds at a very decorous pace. Not at all what I have been used to in Montreal where it sometimes seems that spring lasts just one day sometime in May and it’s straight on to summer!
Here’s Tom’s freshly written poem!
Sheltered by the leafy swirl
of berries, buds, and blossoms
bushtits bounce and preen and swirl
among the branches. Awesome
ingenuity is there
in their perfect form,
flitting thither, without care
before the world is born
image (c) 2018 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2018 TJ Radcliffe
Oh so adorable!! 💕
Thank you! 😊
Very cute! This could be the illustration on the inner title page of a book titled “Mystery at Birds and Buds Garden”, where a group of resourceful teenagers solve a mysterious mystery
Haha I suppose it could! Hmmmmm… 😄