Here’s a California bird that lives year round in coastal scrub and chaparral.

About the size of a black-capped chickadee, the wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) usually skulks in dense thickets so he’s hard to see.  But this one came out for a drink and Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith captured his acrobatic stretch.

Male and female wrentits sing all year long.  If you hear this song you might find the bird.  (recorded by Michael Lester Xeno-canto #XC312612).

p.s.  Wrentits are uncommon to rare in California’s Central Valley.  You have to go up-slope to find them near Chico.

(photo by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith via Flickr, Creative Commons license)