Pitchy-pee

My old friend Charlie, now in his nineties, tells me he knew these
birds as pitchy-pees before he ever heard the word chickadee. My
father used to say he could get them to land on his hand and I have
tried for decades unsuccessfully. Last year my nephew sent a
photograph of a chickadee landing on his palm. I am jealous.

This pitchy-pee was outside my kitchen window this afternoon sitting
calmly while the snow blew around him.