Identification - This is a tiny, short-tailed, olive gray bird that is smaller than a sparrow. On the head it shows a black-and-white bordered crown patch of orange in the male and yellow in the female. It has conspicuous white wing bars and golden feather edges to its tiny dark wings. It feeds in evergreens at the tips of branches and often flutters as it picks out insects from between the needles.
Morsels - The Golden-crowned Kinglet usually builds its nest in tree tops, sometimes nearly as high as 100 feet (30 meters) from the ground. Nests are woven cups so well hidden in thick branches of spruce, fir, and other conifers that they are relatively weather proof and concealed from predators. Squirrels and jays, however, will methodically search branches and when they do, agitated kinglets often follow them, calling and flicking their wings. Other songbirds may join the kinglets in protesting the presence of the nest hunters and actually "mob" them. Often the predator gives up and moves away.
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