Posted today is a selfie I captured with Molly.
Molly is a chickadee.
As a point of fact, Molly might be a boy bird, but I can’t really
bring myself to call a chickadee by a boy’s name. That, and I really have no idea about the sex
of my local chickadees. I don’t know a
boy from a girl. I read somewhere that
males have a larger black bib in their coloring. Not particularly helpful.
Molly and I are pretty good friends. She and a half-dozen other chickadees are
regulars at my birdfeeder. Of all the
birds, Molly is by far the friendliest.
Maybe the hungriest. She flutters
around me—practically pushing me aside—whenever I pour more seeds into the
feeder.
Molly will readily perch on my fingers and take seeds from my palm.
As you can see from the photograph, she is not camera shy.
—Mitchell Hegman
I love this! I think it is a she-bird and she has chosen you as her beloved.
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