Garden

[GingerPeach]

Many mornings I hear a tapping on my tall French doors. 

Now that it's spring, the spiders are building more webs around this tall window and one little local bushtit has found the spiders easy prey. 

As the bird feeds, it taps on the window.  

It may also be collecting bits of webbing for a nest.

It makes me glad I'm not a better housekeeper or I wouldn't have been able to witness the movements of the little bird (or provide its breakfast!).  Besides, the window faces a small part of the yard tucked away at the side of the house in a place that isn't seen by anyone.

One year it made a nest in the osmanthus shrub just outside that window.

I am trying to get his/her picture but the bird moves fast.  This is a bushtit from the internet holding onto its breakfast,

They are pretty darn cute and only about three inches long.

[goldensrbest]

I leave dog hair outside this time of year, the birds use it for building nests.