The Caterpillar Service – Day Seven
Today the Long-Tailed Bushtits are working as hard as ever to gather invertebrates:
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-14-725x484.jpg)
After a week I’m much happier with my photographs and feel they are getting better. I think this one really shows their essential character:
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-2-725x725.jpg)
Long-Tailed Bushtits obviously have very special life skills. Quite how they manage to find such a vast treasure hoard of caterpillars is a mystery to me. They’ve been genetically attuned to identify tiny signs of every type of their prey.
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-3-1-725x483.jpg)
I love their alternate names of Bumbarrels and Mummyruffins.
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-5-1-725x483.jpg)
I’ve been lying in the brambles on a wet slope in the sun for hours now and I’m tired and hungry. Thankfully there’s a sudden bout of Thomas Hardy style sympathetic weather as the clouds appear, it gets cold, and there’s not enough light to get good photographs. It’s time to go.
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-7-1-725x725.jpg)
I have a memory card that is metaphorically bursting with images and a mind that is full of memories of a glorious day.
Will they still be there tomorrow?
More Long-Tailed Bushtits
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-12-300x200.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-6-300x200.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-15-1-300x200.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-2-1-300x169.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-1-300x200.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-3-300x169.jpg)
![Long-Tailed Tit - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Long-Tailed-Tit-The-Hall-of-Einar-1-12-300x200.jpg)