Three chickadees hung around my house throughout the long winter. Some weeks ago, I started feeding them crushed walnuts on a near daily basis. Rather than using a birdfeeder, which lures in more birds than I care to deal with, I place handfuls of nuts on the brick ledge around my house whenever I see the chickadees flitting about.
One chickadee
is particularly bold and will readily land on my hand to pick up a morsel to
eat. That particular bird also makes a
point of fluttering up and landing somewhere nearby me when I am outside for
any reason.
The
other day when I stepped outside while carrying a bucket in my right hand, the
chickadee looped around my head and then landed on the rim of the bucket as I
held it by my side.
“You
must need breakfast,” I said to the bird.
“Hang on, I’ll get you something.”
When the chickadee fluttered off and dropped onto the brick ledge a few
feet away, I trotted back in the house to get a handful of walnuts.
Desiree
also enjoys feeding the chickadees. I
have posted a photograph of our bold chickadee friend taking a walnut from her
hand.
Desiree
and the Chickadee
—Mitchell
Hegman
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