Little Gems in the ForestNovember 1: While hiking along a logging road that runs through a partially cleared section of our woods up behind the farm, I heard the thin, high notes of golden-crowned kinglets actively working their way through the balsam branches as they sought out tiny insects. On such a grey, dreary, cold day, the sight of tiny flashes of gold among the dark green evergreens as they chatted excitedly to one other was such a little thing, but so huge in the way it gave light to my soul.
Golden-crowned kinglets are little birds that breed and raise their families in northern confer forests, but will sometimes spend their winter months here in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Normally, they are hard to spot because they are tiny, very active moving from branch to branch high up in the tops of evergreens in search of little insects. Their high-pitched, thin notes and buzzy chatter will give way their location. Luckily this day they were searching in the lower branches and were such a pleasure to see close up.
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