Comments on: Unidentified Flying Dinosaur: Sunflower Lovers

By: rq

rq — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:34:36 +0000

I feel like I’ve missed the party. :) And yes, I saw Stephanie’s post about meat-eating chickadees. Personally, just puts them that much closer to dinosaurs, and THAT makes them that much cooler.

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:47:05 +0000

Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee! Don’t you love the way they hang upside-down? We spent the last few days at our alternate location, where we got to watch them (the chestnut-backed variety, however) on our feeder and suet. Which reminds me, I’ve a UFD to send you. They’re going a little hungrier now because I to put the feeders away to protect them from the dagnab raccoons.

By: Dana Hunter

Dana Hunter — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:48:10 +0000

In reply to Ibis3, member of the Oppressed Sisterhood fanclub. Yes! Send pics and some words on where it was to dhunterauthor at Yahoo dot com.

By: Ibis3, member of the Oppressed Sisterhood fanclub

Ibis3, member of the Oppressed Sisterhood fanclub — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:58:37 +0000

Hey Dana, do you take UFD identification requests?

By: Dana Hunter

Dana Hunter — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:24:58 +0000

In reply to heliconia. Hee hee. That's the one. You can imagine my glee when Stephanie posted that earlier this week. Evvvviiilll chickadees!

By: heliconia

heliconia — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:52:36 +0000

I concur. And I believe the link you've requested is this one.

By: abear

abear — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:49:49 +0000

Beat me to it. Like their close cousins the chestnut backed chickadee they are bold and reasonably easy to hand feed. Try peanuts, sunflower seeds or during summer when they are feeding their young or in winter offer some suet. Bonus points; they like venison fat as much as suet (processed fat).

By: nedchamplain

nedchamplain — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:40:41 +0000

Looks like a black capped chickadee to me.