When it comes to acrobatic performances in the trees, neither the chickadee nor the titmouse can rival their relatives, the little bluish gray nuthatches.
This pert and lively cousin of the lovable little chickadee is not quite so friendly and far more noisy.
Where there is onechickadee there are apt to be more in the neighbourhood; for these sociable, active, cheerful little black-capped fellows in gray like to hunt for their living in loose scattered flocks throughout the fall and winter.
The chips by which this good workman is known are left on the nursery floor, for woodpeckers do not pamper their babies with fine grasses, feathers or fur cradle linings, as the chickadee and some other birds do.
Happily the chickadee may find a woodpecker's vacant hole in some hollow tree; worse luck if a new excavation must be made in a decayed birch--the favourite nursery.
Although this tool is a great help to the nuthatches in making their nests, they appear to be quite as ready to accept a deserted woodpecker's hole as the chickadee with a smaller bill.
How the crowded chickadee babies must swelter in their bed of fur and feathers tucked inside a close, stuffy hole!
The chickadee eats great quantities of these eggs.
Throughout the winter a single chickadee will destroy great numbers of the eggs of the cankerworm moth and of the plant louse.
All in all, the scene was a revelation to me, a chickadee family quarrel being something the like of which I had never dreamed of.
For my own part the first lisp of a chickadee out of a wayside thicket disperses with a breath all such unhappy and unhallowed recollections.
I have even seen the gentle-hearted chickadee resent the intrusion of a chipping sparrow, though it appeared impossible that the latter could be suspected of any predatory or sinister design.
For music, I one day heard a goldfinch warbling a few strains, and on the 21st a chickadee repeated his clear phoebe whistle two or three times.
Early that morning, just after Peter had settled down for his morning nap, Tommy Tit the Chickadee had dropped into the dear Old Briar-patch just to be neighborly.
It was just as Tommy Tit the Chickadee had told him.
On that hill was the young peach orchard of which Tommy Tit the Chickadee had told him, and ever since Peter's mouth had watered and watered every time he thought of those young peach trees and the tender bark on them.
Joe said that they called the chickadee kecunnilessu in his language.
The roar of the rapids, the note of a whistler duck on the river, of the jay and chickadee around us, and of the pigeon woodpecker in the openings, were the sounds that we heard.
Why, again, the chickadeecan be induced to perch upon your hand, and take food from it, more readily than can the nuthatch or the woodpecker, is a question not so easily answered.
I have seen a young chickadee fly late in the day from the nest in the cavity of a tree straight to a pear-tree, where it perched close to the trunk and remained unregarded by its parents till next morning.
The dramas of love and grief began to play themselves out where the raccoon and the chickadee had fleeted the golden hours in careless living.
The chickadee makes a little felt-like mat or carpet with which it covers the bottom of the nest-cavity.
The abundant summer, the lean and wolfish winter, findChickadee cheerful and gentle.
Last winter while I was tying up a piece of suet that had fallen into the snow, a hungry and impatient chickadee lighted on the brim of my felt hat.
He is not quite so sociable in summer as in winter, but if you were no bigger than a chickadee (two and one half inches without your tail!
The cold drove me on; but the sight of the chickadee had warmed me, and all my shivering world of night and death.
It was not hard digging, but it was very slow, for Chickadee is neither carpenter nor mason.
Chickadee lacks both the bill chisel and the tail brace.
Perhaps Chickadee was not left behind by Summer to feed my lost and starving hope through the cheerless months of winter.
I have foundChickadee nesting in live white oaks, maples, upturned roots, and tumbling fence-posts.
At sight of her, Mr. Chickadee hastened with his worm, brushing my face, almost, as he darted to her side.
Mr. Chickadeewas doing only part of his duty, and only half-heartedly at that!
For a detailed description of the Mountain Chickadee as a species, the reader is referred to Ridgway (1904, p.
Intergradation undoubtedly connects the four races of the Mountain Chickadee into a continuous series of forms.
Within this general area the Mountain Chickadee is by no means uniformly distributed.
Map showing distribution of the races of the Mountain Chickadee in California.
Now when the chickadee came on his mission and appeared at the dwellings of men he was invited to enter.
So this is the message which the chickadee brought to the evil powers which had sought to overcome mankind.
At this time they chose to send the chickadee as a messenger to find out the conditions and to bring back word to them.
I have sometimes seen Chickadee in winter when he seemed to come to me out of very need for living companionship.
The two are very much alike in spirit; but however tame and confiding Chickadee may become, he is still a bird and belongs to a different and, despite his wings, lower order of beings.
Chickadee is often curious about me; he can be coaxed to eat from my hand.
And if perchance the chickadee Lisp a faint note anon, The snow is summer's canopy, Which she herself put on.
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day, when the meadow mice come out by the wall-sides, and the chickadee lisps in the defiles of the wood?
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
The note of the chickadee sounds now more distinct, as you wander amid the old trees, and the autumnal dandelion is half closed and tearful.
It was a revelation to me that a chickadee could possibly sit still so long.
How came the chickadee by his endless fund of happy spirits?
In Walden wood the chickadee Runs round the pine and maple tree Intent on insect slaughter: O tufted entomologist!
It is safe to say that the chickadee is a resident bird throughout the United States and is rather abundant in the Southern states.
If we must do so, let us see what kind of showing our chickadee makes for herself.
The third was two rather long notes in a clear, sweet whistle, the second higher in pitch than the first, so that it resembled the phoebe whistle of the chickadee reversed.
If so, it must be slow work; but Chickadee is very patient.
Just in front a chickadee hung and twittered among the birch twigs.
Chickadee listened awhile, then hopped down to the ground, picked up something that I could not see, and flew away.
If you ask the boy there who tells you the law, "Why not a chickadeeas well as a sparrow?
In the second post on the left I found it, a tiny knot-hole, which Chickadee had hollowed out deep and lined with rabbit fur.
I was weaving an idle history of the old fence, when a chickadee twittered in the pine behind me.
Fortunately the shrike is rare with us; one seldom finds his nest, with poor Chickadee impaled on a sharp thorn near by, surrounded by a varied lot of ugly beetles.
Other birds never see them, but Chickadee and his relations leave never a twig unexplored.
Chickadee had never seemed afraid of me, and I thought he would trust me now.
Then Chickadee was hanging head down, just where he was before.
No one ever taught the older boy to discriminate between a chickadee and other birds; no one else ever instructed the younger.
Again and again I have seen a man grow better tempered or more cheerful, without knowing why he did so, just because Chickadee stopped a moment to be cheery and sociable.
If you meet Chickadee in May with a bit of rabbit fur in his mouth, or if he seem preoccupied or absorbed, you may know that he is building a nest, or has a wife and children near by to take care of.
I suppose there was not a Squirrel-hole or a hollow log in the neighbourhood that some Chickadee did not enter to inquire if this was the Gulf of Mexico.
Where the chickadee is friendly the jay is impudent and bold; hardly less of a villain than his blue relative when it comes to marauding other birds' nests and destroying their young.
The blackpoll has a certain characteristic motion that distinguishes him from the black-and-white creeper, for which a hasty glance might mistake him, and from the jolly little chickadeewith his black cap.
As the chickadee comes from the woods with the frost, so it may be noticed his cousin, the crested titmouse, is in more noisy evidence throughout the winter.
Food: Food habits of the Carolina chickadee are also very similar to those of the black-capped chickadee.
Food: The diet of the black-capped chickadee is comprised of 70 percent animal and 30 percent vegetable matter.
In Missouri, the Carolina chickadee nests south of the Missouri River throughout the Ozarks.
The chickadee is one of the brave little spirits who spends the entire winter with us, Fig.
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