This gallery contains 2 photos. A Chestnut-backed Chickadee baby and mom in the backyard on a muggy day in mid-June. Bold as most chickadees tend to be, these newcomers exhibited no shyness with my camera just a few feet from the suet feeder the baby was on, and curious about. Mom kept up an ongoing cautionary stream of chirps and cheeps to baby, though.
I missed the tender mom-feeding-the-baby-from-her-beak moment. So this will have to do! Baby on the upper apple branch, mom looking up from a lower one. My first photos of the Chestnut-Backed Chickadees that weren’t blurs or back shots.
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Ahhh They’re cute! 🙂
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oh yes — totally adorbs!
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Wowww, bellissimi scatti per questi uccellini splendidi !!
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thank you, Patrizia! 🙂
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He really has come a long way 🙂 ❤
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always a pleasure to see these birdies — anywhere!
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Not scared at all !!! 🙂
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no shyness, indeed … I have come close enough to pet them, at times! 🙂
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wow– cool !
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that hasn’t actually happened, although I have hand fed the ones that inhabit the local bird sanctuary/refuge …
or should I say, they have landed on my fingertips just long enough to snatch a seed before flying off 🙂
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Nice! They’re such quick moving little birds. I’m always struggling to get good looks at them.
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the very young ones will let me get within a few inches, and the bolder, older ones will simply fly over to have a gander. 🙂
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