If you have "a-dee!" in your name, you've got to be cute
You've never heard of 'Giraffe-a-dee" or "hipp-o-dee", but CHICK-A-DEE? Now we're TALKING! (er bokking!)
I can almost hear the plinkety plinkety of those eye capsules, and tiniest of feathers brosheing on my cheek. Ahnng.
Sender-Inner Sarah B. says her brother is an expert in not getting pecked too moishe.
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Oh, absolutely beautiful! What a lucky finger, to have a chickadeee on it.
furee birdee
oh my effing goodness. i love chickadees!
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird,bird,b-birds the word
A-well-a bird,bird bird,the bird is the word.
(Surfin bird,The Trashmen)
that's a freaking amazing picture. I wish that was my finger in the picture...
CUTE BIR-DEE! I love it. I never thought a little bird could be as cute as this one is...oh my :)
oooo... I get chick-a-dee-dee-dees at my birdfeeders.
cute-cute-cute
Awww my little chickadee. I wish you would come sick on my finger.
Wheee! Looks like someone is bird banding! (http://www.ornithology.com/banding.html ) I got to do that in vertebrate bio in college, and boy was that a blast. Chick-a-dees are one of my favorite birds. Little balls of fluff in the cold snow around the feeder.
Anh....
Those little guys are soooo easy to train to eat out of your hand. All you need is a bunch of them, a handful of shelled peanuts or sunflower seeds, and a bit of patience. We had one who would dive bomb us when we came out the back door, waiting for us to dig in our pockets for the handful of seeds we always carried around for him!
What a soft, sweet looking birdie!
I love the color scheme, too. Very J. Crew. :)
As Teddy R. would say,
"DEE-lighted!"
Ohhhh! I love chickadee dee dees! When we moved from east coast to west, it made me so sad to learn that I'd longer have my beloved chickadees.
But black phoebes are cute too. It's some consolation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Phoebe
Soooooo fluffy!
I read somewhere (Ranger Rick Magazine in the 80's?) that they will hang upside-down on tree branches for no reason other than "It's fun!"
Awww! I've always loved chickadees. My sister and I used to call them chicken-dees. :) SO cute.
I bet if you popped him in your mouf, he'd *poof*, just like those peppermints do! Know what I mean?!
as my dad said to me once when i was casual about spotting a chickadee, "JUST a chickadee??? that's like saying, 'JUST a diamond!'"
sometimes at my parents' house in maine, we'll open the window and hold seeds in our hands next to the bird feeder, and these little guys will come and land on us to eat. they're so light!
chickadees are the best!! amazing, resilient little creatures. and so cute too!!
chicka dee dee dee
If there are chickadees around and you make squeaky noises with your mouth, sometimes one will fly over and "talk" back to you.
Memories! My family nickname is Dee Dee and when I was a little girl and a chickadee was singing my grandfather had me convinced it was calling for me!
Oh, Oh, I have a D in my name does that mean I'm cute? :)
another adorable little birdie is the carolina wren. their shape cracks me up!! so cute!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carolina_Wren_2.jpg
The black-capped Chickadee is the state bird of Masschusetts, where I live. Also the state bird of Maine. They are the cutest birds ever. Even cuter than budgies.
How do they keep warm in winter? They wear down jackets.
I have been a birdwatcher for a few years and never knew that Chickadees were so tame! I'm soooo going to try hand-feeding them! Such an adorable picture!
I just got the sudden urge to go have lunch at Chick-Fil-A... not sure why.
My long lost cousin! He's almost as cute as me!
We have the carolina wrens at our house in the summer and they kind of pop pop pop along the ground and are pretty friendly also.
In February there is the Great Backyard Bird Count!
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
The day of the count ended up being a snow day for work, and I got to sit by the picture window and count all day - I had a blast!! I highly recommend joining if you can!
jen, *love* the Carolina wrens. They're not just cute but also quite chatty. The ones in our neighborhood usually say something like "teacher teacher teacher" or "cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger."
thats just adorable
I live in the West coast, and I have never seen a chickadee in person. Now I am sad. :-(
That has got to be one of the cutest birdees I have ever seen!
It looks more furry than feathery!
Meg is definitely psychic-- my kitties were watching chickadees outside, and I found I nice big chickadee pick to put on my desktop. I am in a chickadee mood!
PS: RE Chickadees-- how can you make up cute nicknames for an animal that has already has a cute nickname for a name? ;)
Fluff a Dee!!
can you imagine a hippo-dee sitting on your finger?
Fluff a Dee!!
i love dees.
I'm changing my name to Buck-A-Dee!!!!
I used to take groups of little girls out hiking in the winter (in Ontario Canada) and we'd stop where they'd put sunflower seeds on their hats and in both mitts. The we'd stand still and the girls would get swarmed by dozens of little 'dees! Very very cute!!!
Being in the middle of a 'dee flock must be like being the nucleus of an atom. They're all BING! ZOOM! ZAP! ZIP! all around you.
OMG. It's like a lint ball with eyes! What insane fluffitude!
Fluff a Dee!!
Sigh! How I miss my East Coast birds! Chickadees and Cardinals. We don't have 'em out here in Seattle.
I want to dip this little guy in powder and dust myself with him!
For those who live on the coast: You won't find the black-capped chickadees there. They don't like the heavy humidity of the climate near the sea. You will see chestnut-backed chickadees, though. And if you set out a tray of black oil sunflower seeds and some shelled raw peanuts, they'll find you! They don't sit and feed. They swoop in, grab, and fly...they stash food like squirrels do.
the eye to head - beak to eye to head size ratio is fabulous!
Carolina Wren 'tocks! So cute!
The Chickadee is like: Whah?
Leslie Evans,
I live in Bellingham, not terribly far from Seattle.
I feel your pain. :-(
I bet if you dipped him in powder, he'd start sneezing really cute tiny little sneezes. lol
Enjoying the rain we have today? I've heard it's supposed to turn into snow soon.
aww. wee burd.
Silent Meow,
Sorry you are missing out. The chickadee is named for the sound they make:
"CHICK uh dee dee".
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The chickadee's song gets varied far more than the human ear can hear. They have very sophisticated communication system that has been discovered in recent years. We can't hear the difference except as to the number of "dees" they add on to the end when calling their flock to mob a predator. To hear animal and bird calls, check the great links at:
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/links.html