I came across this wonderful word art (alphabet art) of a black-capped chickadee and thought it worth sharing. You can read more about it on the original page: dust breeding

He was very excited and to add to his excitement–I put out donuts for him. Oh! This was a happy weekend for our little chicka-dee-dee-dees!

Our birdy feeders have been seemingly sparse lately, or so we thought but then we realized we have attracted bully birds to our porch. The crows have always been a welcome bird. For the most part they do not harm or disturb the other little birds. We began feeding them and then branched out to [...]

We love our little black-capped chickadees! They are cute and energetic and fun. They have little white cheeks and black caps and black chins with a white collar patch and a light tan, orangish underbelly and grayish-black wings. It is said they eat mostly seeds but we have seen differently! =) Oh do not get [...]

I watched for an hour and a half and this was my official count: 5 House Finches (2 males, 3 females) 3 Dark-Eyed Juncos 2 Red-Breasted Nuthatches 2 Downy Woodpeckers (One male, one female) 5 Chestnut-backed Chickadees A dozen or more Black-Capped Chickadees 1 Stellar’s Jay 5 American Robins (1 male, 4 females) 3 dozen [...]

OH! YAY! Since we put out the peanuts without shells and the new bird feeder, we have had so many new visitors. These wonderfully interesting feathered friends we have seen stop in… Stellar’s Jay ** Red-Breasted Nuthatch Black-Capped Chickadee Brewer’s Blackbird ** Crows (on a regular basis) American Robin House Finch Dark-eyed Junco Chestnut-Backed Chickadee [...]

These little cuties come to the back porch to eat the black oil sunflower seeds in the new feeder. YAY for new birds! =) (Don’t worry, we are still feed the crows!) There are two types here: the Black-Capped Chickadees and Chestnut-Backed Chickadees. Aren’t they adorable? “Mixed flocks stay together because the chickadees call out [...]