My Little Chickadees

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by ILoveWinnipesaukee

... Not sure if you have them up at the lake, but we also have what we call here in Massachusetts as snow birds, they are mostly black except for a white stomach. ...

The bird you refer to is the Dark-eyed Junco, one of my favorites! They, like the chickadee, are very social. One of their most entertaining behaviors is what I refer to as the snow-dance. If you sprinkle seed (preferably sunflower) on the deck or deck railings after a light snow, they will position themselves over a seed, and then hop forward and backward very quickly so as to clear the snow away from the seed. It's absolutely hilarious to watch!

Another bird to be on the look-out for this time of year is the Cedar Waxwing. They'll descend in large groups anywhere there are berries to be had. You'll know they've arrived when you hear their chorus of "tseeeee tseeeee tseeeeee". They're stunningly beautiful.

[Airedale1]

Originally Posted by Pepper

The bird you refer to is the Dark-eyed Junco, one of my favorites!

One of my favorites too. I took these about 3 years ago. This year we had a very large flock (over 100) in our yard about 2 weeks ago. They are very cute birds.

[RI Swamp Yankee]

How do you get them to smile and pose like that?

Fantastic pictures, thanks.

[ishoot308]

Great pictures!!

Thanks for sharing!

Dan

[ILoveWinnipesaukee]

Originally Posted by Pepper

The bird you refer to is the Dark-eyed Junco, one of my favorites! They, like the chickadee, are very social. One of their most entertaining behaviors is what I refer to as the snow-dance. If you sprinkle seed (preferably sunflower) on the deck or deck railings after a light snow, they will position themselves over a seed, and then hop forward and backward very quickly so as to clear the snow away from the seed. It's absolutely hilarious to watch!...

I know what you are talking about, we have a farmers porch on our home and live on the second floor. We through seed out the livingroom window all year round for the birds. We have trees right beside the house and the birds nest there and bring their babies over to the room to learn how to eat. The winter birds are wonderful, when the weather is cold and the ground is covered with snow, seeing the birds brightens my day. I will have to come up to the lake and check out the birds up there this winter. I hope to spend some time there when everything settles down after the holidays.

[Lakesrider]

I don't have a feeder due to the bears around here still, but I do throw out seed on the ground in my yard and saw those birds around all last week. Yesterday, None! ??

One more time...Most awesome pics. Very clear. Your book will be coming out when? Christmas. Great! I need a couple for Christmas presents. Just let me know where to get them. Really! I'm serious Dude. You need to put out a book.

[Greene's Basin Girl]

Originally Posted by Lakesrider

I don't have a feeder due to the bears around here still, but I do throw out seed on the ground in my yard and saw those birds around all last week. Yesterday, None! ??

One more time...Most awesome pics. Very clear. Your book will be coming out when? Christmas. Great! I need a couple for Christmas presents. Just let me know where to get them. Really! I'm serious Dude. You need to put out a book.

We have several bears, but we put our feeder out last week and haven't had a problem. I think our bears went nite nite!

[WinnDixie]

Your OUTSTANDING photography is one of the many things that make this such a great Forum. Thank you for sharing your work with us!! Lakesrider (who is no slouch, himself, at great pictures) is right. You need to do a book!

[Lakesrider]

I certainly hope he does do a book. I'm not good at bird identification at all, and his pictures are so clear, they kind of freak me out a bit. I was thinking of printing one, cutting it out and sticking it to my window, like there was bird out there.....