The ever-friendly Black-capped Chickadee
Janet and a tiny friend
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
A visit to George's hand
A birder's first time
Black-capped Chickadee on Judy's hand
On a frosty morning
A friendly visitor
You can always count on a Chickadee
The favourite
Complete with tiny rooster weather vane
I'm blurry, but I'm cute
Trust
Well, hello, little Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee at a cavity
You can always count on the Chickadees
Thank you all so much!
Love the sparkle of those tiny diamonds
You can always count on a Black-capped Chickadee
There's always a Chickadee
You can always count on a Chickadee
Thank heavens for Chickadees
A quick visit
Blue dot bokeh
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Hey, lady, got any food?
Hey, remember me?
Hanging on
Bathed in light
Caught between seasons
Bashful
Time for take-off
King of the Spruce tree
Chickadee perch
Black-capped Chickadee
Friends
Consolation prize
Well, hello there
Look closely : )
A warm place to land
A bird for a change
Fluffed
Her very first experience
Woodland bokeh
You can always count on these little guys
Black-capped Chickadee / Poecile atricapillus
Black-capped Chickadee
Love those little feet
A lucky shot
A bird in the hand...
Musical chairs
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee
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Friendly interaction
A two-second rest
Survival of the fittest
On a windy day
Winter colours
An autumn moment
Not going anywhere
Between friends
Hand-held
Take-off
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Pam and friend
All three photos posted today were taken yesterday, 19 October 2017, when I joined birding friends for a walk in South Glenmore Park. The setting is beautiful, but usually the birds are out in the middle of the Glenmore Reservoir or near the far side. The main reasons I go for a walk there is just to enjoy the views over the water and to catch up with friends. If I'm lucky, I might come home with a couple of bird photos.
Not the best lighting, but I thought this little Chickadee's pose was quite cute. It looks like it is checking, before flying off, that there is not a better seed in friend Pam's hand. They can be picky eaters. These birds are just 24 hours away from death, and need to collect enough fat in order to survive. Such busy little birds.
"The Black-capped Chickadee is notable for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (they can feed from the hand)." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-capped_Chickadee
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/black-capped_chickadee/id
"The chickadee's unerring spatial memory is remarkable enough, says Colin Saldanha, assistant professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University and an anatomist who has studied songbirds for six years.
But it is what happens inside the tiny songbird's brain that Saldanha finds amazing. In the fall, as the chickadee is gathering and storing seeds, Saldanha says, its hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for spatial organization and memory in many vertebrates, expands in volume by approximately 30 percent by adding new nerve cells. In songbirds, the hippocampus is located on the dorsal surface of the forebrain right beneath the skull. In mammals, the hippocampus is located beneath the cortex.
In the spring, when its feats of memory are needed less, the chickadee's hippocampus shrinks back to its normal size, Saldanha says." From article on ScienceDaily.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030912072156.htm
Not the best lighting, but I thought this little Chickadee's pose was quite cute. It looks like it is checking, before flying off, that there is not a better seed in friend Pam's hand. They can be picky eaters. These birds are just 24 hours away from death, and need to collect enough fat in order to survive. Such busy little birds.
"The Black-capped Chickadee is notable for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (they can feed from the hand)." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-capped_Chickadee
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/black-capped_chickadee/id
"The chickadee's unerring spatial memory is remarkable enough, says Colin Saldanha, assistant professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University and an anatomist who has studied songbirds for six years.
But it is what happens inside the tiny songbird's brain that Saldanha finds amazing. In the fall, as the chickadee is gathering and storing seeds, Saldanha says, its hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for spatial organization and memory in many vertebrates, expands in volume by approximately 30 percent by adding new nerve cells. In songbirds, the hippocampus is located on the dorsal surface of the forebrain right beneath the skull. In mammals, the hippocampus is located beneath the cortex.
In the spring, when its feats of memory are needed less, the chickadee's hippocampus shrinks back to its normal size, Saldanha says." From article on ScienceDaily.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030912072156.htm
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