Wild Bird Wednesday

The Chickadee dee dees ...

I am not going to apologize for the crappiness of these pictures.  I am trying to tell a story here and this little group was most uncooperative. Flying, flitting, hopping, twittering and tweeting among the leaves of my trees and any time I got close enough to be able to focus manually, the whole group would zip around the corner of the house, out of sight, but not out of mind.  It took me several days to get these and I decided to just go with it.

There are two parents and three babies.  In most pictures you can tell them apart because the babies still have blood (pin) feathers around their head and neck and my favorite part is that their feet are too big for their little bodies (the babies are about the size of a fat hummingbird :).  

This story is a little personal since these babies were raised right near my front door.  I tried taking pictures once, but Mom and Dad just sat in a bush nearby and scolded me. Rather than spook them, I have been walking big circles around this little house for weeks ... so you can imagine how thrilled I was to see them in my tree by my feeders.  That's my WBW ...  now, Happy WBW  to all of you, as well.

Andrea