One of my chickadee friends came by a few times over summer asking for seeds. I don't feed them in the summer but if they come by asking I'll give them a small handful of seeds just to let them know I'm still here. After a couple visits they brought their kids over to meet me! I really hope they all come hang out this winter. There can never be enough chickadees!
That is so sweet. I don't have the feeders going over summer either, but like you I have seeds on hand for them should any come by. :) How awesome about them bringing their kids to meet you. So much sweetness.
I feed them All Year but it seems in summer time they don't depend on the seeds like they do in the cold weather conditions ..but the dove's they are waiting for me like clock work I feed them chicken scratch I got from the local feed store. I feed them early in the morning and evening
Fascinating! I loved the food caching info. Especially about the hippocampus expanding and then going back to original size in Spring. Nature never ceases to amaze! Great video!
I love chickadees, but never knew about the self-regulating body temperatures...it is truly remarkable that they can lower their body temp that much! Being able to remember where they stash so much food is pretty awesome too...I can't find my glasses if I put them down for a second...😄 Thanks for your wonderful videos and photos...I actually just started a drawing from one of your chickadee photos from a while ago.
Thank you again Lesley. Due to my low vision, I can't see these small birds so well. But your videos, on my phone, I can see much more details. So, I hope that you are able to continue doing these videos, as they are very interesting & entertaining for me. Good health to you and your mate.
I'm so sorry it's that way, but happy that you can at least enjoy seeing them in good detail through videos like these. Thank you for the encouragement and nice wishes to me and my mate. We appreciate that a lot. Good health to you too.
Absolutely my favorite bird. Years ago I would feed them by hand and a certain pair would wait for me in the driveway to arrive home and fill the feeders… they’d often fly right into my face to get my attention and demand that I do my duty. And I’ve noticed as well that they are very opportunistic and inquisitive. They seem to explore everything that is available to them. So much to love about these little stinkers.
That is exactly how Chickadees are. They do not mind getting up close and personal, very investigative too, haha! And you are so right, they are curious about almost everything in their environment.
I see that titmice can crossbreed with chickadees! It cracks me up to consider these two charismatic birds could be such closely kin. How pleasing, these sweet chickadees.
Black capped chickadees team up with nuthatches and tufted titmice when sweeping through the woods on a foraging run. They are something to watch! Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
I can't think of one chickadee trait that stands out as my favorite....everything they do is my favorite thing about them. But the one thing that made me fall in love with them in the first place is their sound. The almost erethreal "fee-bee" sounds I heard all the time made me pay attention to what bird was making that sound. Many, many years later they are among the dearest wild birds to me.
My favorite thing about them is they're always here in N. Georgia. I can count on them after others have left. I'm on my front porch right before sunset, I call it "evening fill up"! The hummingbirds are tanking up at the nectar bar while the finches & chickadees hit the seed feeder. There's plenty of native plants for everybody too & I've not used a spec of chemicals this year! I let a lot of things self seed & have been rewarded greatly. I adore my little winged friends & love providing a place for them here. They reward me with their company & sweet songs!
I love Chickadees! When I lived in northern NH, I would make sure my feeders were all filled every morning in the winter. I had them(Chickadees) and Goldfinches always at my feeders. I really miss seeing these cute and beautiful birds since I moved to southern NH. There are not as many or so it seems down here as compared to the north. Love your channel. Not only do I learn things that I did not know before, but also I get to see those gorgeous Blue Jays! Thank you.
These guys are one of my favorite! The fact they can lower their body temp and remember where they hid food is amazing! I was wondering if they migrate?
Chickadees aren't migratory, not in the way other birds are, heading south. They just kind of move around a very short distance within their range. For example chickadees at higher elevations may migrate to lower elevations over winter, other than that they stay in their area year round pretty much.
Aww absolutely Amazing!!~* As usual very informative and beautiful. I💕 love these precious little birds. Black Caped Chickadees are one of my favorite, "Little 🪶Gems"!!~*
AWW SO CUTE I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THEY GIVE ME IDEALS FOR MY BABIES MY 🐦 I SAW A YOUNG CHICKADEE THE OTHER DAY WHEN I WENT OUTSIDE TO PUT SOME CORNBREAD AND BLACKOIL SUNFLOWER SEEDS AND HANG UP A SUET CAKE IYT WAS MAKING A NOISE LIKE BEE BEE BEE BEE I SAID HI YOU HUNGRY IT FLEW HIGH IN THE TREE 🌳 I WISH THEY WOULD NOT BE SO AFRAID OF ME I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I WOULD NEVER DELIBERATELY HURT THEM I ENJOY FEEDING AMD CARING FOR THEM WELL MAYBE ONE DAY THEY WILL TRUST ME
Sorry been busy lately and haven't commented much...I wonder if the Chickadee has any genetic relation to Hummingbirds..They share similar traits...Good vīd!!
no apologies necessary :) That's an intriguing question, I don' know enough to say for sure but would love to find a good source on the genetic relationships between various birds and their closeness.
While southern birds can take care of themselves with temperate climate Falls and Winters - northern birds, snow, rain, ice, cold, wind, and blizzard are a different matter. I had a winter in W Bloomfield, MI in 1983, in which we put out a bird feeder and spilled ground feed - and that winter - recorded to the Audobon bird count (of which they - refused? - to admit the count - we had woodpeckers, cardinals, thrush, and every sort of other common tweeties, nearly 175+ at the feeder that it was truly amazing. One could only take a picture and then challenge anybody challenging your statements as BS. If you do have forest birds in the nearby woods, then consider - suet with medium ground nuts (not whole peanuts etc), mixed with light veg oil, a little molasses or honey (vs white sugar), mangel (livestock sugar) beet slices (iron and sugar), carrot mix (Vit A), some real cranberries or cranberry juice (or rose hips, VIt C), milo milllet, sorghum, cracked/ground barley/buckwheat/oats (no rice !), - and ground mushroom of medicinal shrooms (Vit A, B complex, C, D and E and immunity factors !). Go throughout the forest and the noted wood pile where wood thrush and brown wood tweeties frequent and slather up a tree trunk or small twigs near the nest. You would be amazed in how (instead of the blue jays screaming out INTRUDER ! INTRODER ! - and the little brown tweeties screeching and hiding), they will be silent or calm when you walk (or curious and gathering) through THEIR residence zones. Maybe they will even accept you into the territory - for that territorial bribe of sweet treats for royal travel passes .... With recent research there is even the reason why deciduous trees drop their red-orange-yellow leaves - as they are deep red-orange as anti-oxidants and immunity anthocyanins and sugars, while the orange-yellows are the Vit As and sugars needed for the Spring growths. Making a special ground up mix of this for the tweeties - just like modern humans taking anthcyranins (and luteins) for immunity and eye health - these anti-oxidants, immunity factors, sugars, and vitamins also provide a substantial source of healthy nutrition for the tweeites - in digestible form. With domestic birds near your actual home and habitat, then consider wrapping a loosely branched low-level tree with shrink wrap or saran wrap, and create a domed windbreak that the tweeties can enter under and into - and be weather-and-wind-temperature safe. Having grown human civilized berries or wilderness berry plants in the area - they can provide the necessary fruits, juices, and sugars for their over-wintering. One might even consider having a honey-and-bee pollen (with a little royal jelly) suet mix and give them a strong immunity. This is easier done than said (!). And don't forget your local craft brewery and their post-brew mash - which is a massive food and nutrient source for tweeties - with beer vitamins (B complex), minerals, sugars, starches, proteins), fiber, ... Mix that into any suet or plain mix with a drywall spatula into the cracks and crannies of the tree barks. Any insects will also come to the spot - and be more protein for the tweeties as well ! There is so much more that we can do for the tweeties during the over-wintering period, and giving them proper, safe, healthy, (and nutritious) environments for their Spring outcoming and abundance - in return favor for eating up the ants, earwigs, pill bugs, mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, no-see-ums, .... and delivering a co-habitation existance of a peaceful sanctuary realm of humans and critters.
@@scrubjay93 they take care of the bugs, they do all the entire area 18/7/365 surveillance and notice-calling, ... one would almost expect to see flock-harassment of unknown perps on the land, and like Leslie - have them as friendly-friends that will come up and (both of us) joyously enjoy some interactive hand-feeding time.
I love the Chickadees. They stayed away for quite a while because the Jays took over the bird feeders. I have moved things around so that the smaller birds can feed without being bumped and pushed by the Jays. It is so nice to hear their little beeps again. They are so brave and they come to greet me, especially if I am a few minutes late bringing out the food in the morning.
I love chickadees, they make me smile with their joyous attitude!!! And they stay with us all winter long, so courageous. Thanks for that beautiful video. 😍
Many years back I was able to "train" the Chestnut-backed Chickadees at my house to take pine nuts from my hand, but the Black-capped Chickadees have always been tougher to tame. Pine nuts are the greatest for enticing them! (Same for the Douglas squirrels.) Sometimes they would find me working in the garden or up on a ladder pruning trees and land on my hand and peck my fingers until I went to the house to get them nuts. Once I had some young Mormon missionaries stop by my house and the chickadees were at the front door--I got them some pine nuts and they got to have the chickadees feed from their hands, which was really fun. 🤗 At one point I could call them to me from quite a distance when they were up in the firs around the house. One thing I love about chickadees is that they are so brave. Most songbirds if you hold them will be so frightened that they are motionless, but a chickadee will peck at your hands as if they can vanquish the giant monster holding them. I experienced this when doing bird-banding, but also when they occasionally come into the house and become confused at a window and have to be carried out. Such a teeny ball of fluff with a beak the size of a grain of rice, but they say "I will fight you!". 🥰 I can't afford to buy them pine nuts anymore, but they will settle for peanuts or walnuts if they must. I love finding out about the brain size increase for food caching memory 😮--evolution is endlessly amazing; thanks for sharing that!
You are so kind. I love that, and your great love of birds. I can tell that you are kind to other humans, too. Thank you. The planet needs more kindness. 🥰❤️😁
Between the birds and the chipmunks, this summer we've found literally no less than 100 sunflower plants growing all around our property from dropped seeds and seed caches. The black oil sunflower seeds grow so easily that I planted a handful in a flower bed. I'm pretty sure every single one sprouted. I'm so pleased with the experimental patch that we're planning more flowerbeds just to plant more sunflowers next year! It makes your day better when you look outside in the morning and see Chickadees and Blue Jays cheerfully having their breakfast! Lol 💕
I love this! How darn cute is that?! You have your own little gardeners 🥰 I have always wanted to see a sunflower or two pop up around here but haven't. And I agree, it is so nice watching all the birds cheerfully enjoying their breakfast. 😊
I had several volunteer this year. A stunning mahogany came up at the garden edge & reached 10 feet! I had to tie it to a fencepost. The finches are on it so thick, the flowers bob around. Can't wait to see where they come up next year!
Love these lil guys. How they hang upside down to get at berries and such is quite amusing. Their ability to cache food and remember the location for up to a month is the most remarkable thing about them, in my opinion. Nice video, Lesley
A few weeks ago, I witnessed a chickadee pair teaching one of their young ones how to fly. Took the little one a few tries, but impossible to fail with all the cajoling, encouraging and hovering by it's 'helicopter parents' !
I've always adored these colorful and bold birds. They seem to have very little fear of humans and come close. I have 2 acres and spend about $300.00 on feed for all birds and wildlife. So my little friends don't have to struggle for food to stay healthy and warm. It's the best money I've ever spent! Thanks for the information about these glorious little birds. .....
Chickadees never fail to be adorable. 💞💞 Going on a tangent: I've watched and loved your videos of you feeding and getting to know chickadees and other birds through generations. Would you be interested in making a video about the family trees of your (named) bird friends? Example: Alpha/Marxine > Tiny/Tim > Mini-Tim/Angel ... and isn't Bud Tiny's brother/Mini-Tim's uncle? Yikes, I sound way too invested, but hey, you've shown us so much about these birds' lives; I'm curious. 😉
Wow! It always amazes me when other people follow the birds Ive gotten to know so well. I really should get back into do some older style videos again. Thanks for the lovely comment
That is amazing about there hippocampus Lesley, thanks for all the research you do! I love these little darlings, always amazes me how they make it through these harsh winters, they are so hardy!💖
God created everything and saw that it was good ☝️💖 I LOVE birds 🐦 watching and listening to them sing, chirp and converse with each other. It's literally music 🎶 🎵 to my ears and makes my heart ❤️ happy!! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord 🙌 🙌 Thank you for your awesome videos, info and facts. Stay well and be safe 🙏 ❤️ Texas Nana 🤠 Psalm 91
I have Chickadees here all the time, Black Capped, Chestnut Backed, and sometimes Mountain Chickadees. They love suet, and though I usually see two at a time, there is a family of six out there now. This would be their second clutch. I didn't know they cached food though! Thanks Lesley!
Strangely, i had a chickadee fly right to me, land on my hand while i was refilling their water dish, look sidewise at me for a few blinks. She/he than drank a few sips of water, looked at me again blinking a few more times, and than flew to a nearby tree. I was so flattered and astonished. Needless to say, that made my day🥰
They're as dependable and as constant as anything I can think of! Bon weekend from French Canada 🇨🇦 🎶 Everyday is Saturday night but I can't wait for Sunday morning 🌄
My mother takes issue with the birds somewhat robotic motions. I told my mother that I quite enjoy that. But why do birds not have a fluid movement especially with their head? I told my mother that I would ask you. Also, were avian dinosaurs that twitchy?
You have me intrigued, I have never considered that about them before. I'm going to have to see if there is anything out there on this. Thanks for bringing up to me :)
This reminds me of a video from another birder- Jo Alwood- about the processing speed of a bird's brain. *Note: the video is about juncos, but this could easily apply to other birds as well.* Their head movements are quick and jerky because they are taking mental snapshots of every observable detail in their environment. This in turn is because life can be extremely dangerous for birds; they must always be alert and ready to flee in a flash. Human brains (and many other animal brains) don't process things nearly as fast, so birds notice things that we'd either miss or give ourselves whiplash trying to catch. If anyone's interested, here's a link to Jo Alwood's video: th-cam.com/video/_bbAi0XmzuA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JoAlwood
I have also wondered that about tiny dinosaurs after watching birds, trying to picture what that would look like. I imagine that the faster you move your head, the more places you can look for food in an instant--probably why they can also turn their heads in so many directions?
Excellent video with amazing information. Their cognitive skills amazed me! Beautiful photography. Someday I hope to see a Boreal… I just love my black capped friends 💓.
It's easy to see why you gravitated toward them, who would have though that such a small bird would have such a gravitational pull, haha! (What a geek I am.) I'm glad you enjoyed learning about these darling birds. :)
I LOVE my chickadees!! There were SO many of them in spring but now it's mainly the house finch. ... which are chatty & I loved watching the males turn red. Thank you for your love of the chickadee .... I've learned so much about them thanks to your video's!!! 💖💞💕🐦🐦
Chickadees are wonderful. I do bird species surveys and there's lots of Carolina Chickadees. I try not to taken them for granted. I always look forward to hearing their calls each time. FWIW, nesting is over in NE Oklahoma and the Chickadees are grouping up with Tufted Titmouse, Downy Woodpecker, White Breasted Nuthatch especially to form interspecies foraging groups. Brown Creepers will join them later when they arrive for the winter.
I work for pharmaceutical company that explore drugs promoting neurogenesis. I can’t remember how many times I’ve dissected mice hippocampi to analyze their transcriptomes. I strongly suspect we can learn a lot from chickadee amazing ability! However, it is likely that they are not good model unlike mice that are easy to rear and evolutionarily closer to us.
Thank you Leslie! I recently introduced my 76 year old father to birding. I put up feeders outside his living room. We get chickadees, Gosbeaks, finches, thrushes, ringneck doves (We throw seed in the ground for them) and so many more. I have the Peterson's guide out on the table and have taught him how to look up all our little friends. This video will be shared tomorrow at morning coffee when I go over to see him in these great woods of southern Washington!
The grey Jays are my absolute favorites. I see them in early fall. They chase away the Stellar Jays it seems. Such polite camp robbers lol. I love their subtle "meep meep" calls.
I ordered a cup from you for my wife who lives on coffee, the shipping handling made it very broken. I'm not mad about it. I hope to use art of kintsugi to fix for her and make something more special :)
Awww no way. That's not good. Did you buy it through Bonfire or Teespring? Both have great costumer service, I would contact them and see what they can do for you. So sorry this happened
The chickadees near our feeder sometimes use their warning calls to scare away the sparrows long enough to grab some seeds for themselves. There's no danger around but they call out their warning as a trick. They don't do it very much but when they do it's a clever way to keep away the dominant and aggressive sparrows!
Absolutely astonishing! The adaptations they make 'automatically' show an extraordinary evolutionary process. I read somewhere that in some song birds, the part of their brain responsible for the songs they sing to attract a mate, increase in size in the Spring to enable them to create and repeat complex songs. Nature is so fascinating! Great video, Thankyou Lesley!
I love the times I’ve hand feed chickadees they don’t just grab a seed and fly away but stop and look up at you like “Who are you?are these seeds for me?”
These little busy guys aren’t shy either and will eat in your hand. In the woods near my place, people feed them regularly and so even on our first time, they perched on our hands to sort out the seed they wanted to steal away, one after the other.
I think their versatility of chickadees is the best trait they have. I was at Quanah Parker lake in Oklahoma tofu nd the chickadees were giving the business, obviously there was a nest nearby. Such adaptable birds!
The Tit family is my favorite bird family. The Black-capped Chickadee and the Tufted Titmouse are 2 of my favorite local birds. The energy, intelligence, and vocalizations of the Black-capped Chickadee are amazing.
I didn’t know all those things about Chickadees! Fascinating!! All those babies….Whew! I feed them year round here on the Oregon coast. I buy sunflower seeds in 50 lb bags! Most of mine are brown not black. Thanks for your great videos!! 🐣
So, if their hippo campuses get bigger, doesn't that just mean that more hippos come onto campus because they want to learn.....about things like chickadees and stuff? OK, I'm not sure that joke worked. Nonetheless, it's interesting that part of their brains expand, allowing them to 'map' their horde of food. I need to do this so I can recall where I put my cell phone or my car keys. Hippocampus. I wonder why they didn't call it a rhinocampus. What I meant to say was, "Interesting vid and facts about one of the most fun-to-watch birds in N. America". Now, where did I put that bag of chips? I'm going to see a brain surgeon this week to see about having my hippocampus enlarged by at least 50%. I wonder what the size of the hippocampus is in a hippo. If they don't horde food, it's probably smaller than a chickadee's.
That brain grows with it summer needs and watching their abilities to cover the entire branch every angle. Thanks Lesley Bird Neard yes you have " Super Powers "also........
🔴54 Days Inside a Black-capped Chickadee Nest Box🔴
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One of my chickadee friends came by a few times over summer asking for seeds. I don't feed them in the summer but if they come by asking I'll give them a small handful of seeds just to let them know I'm still here. After a couple visits they brought their kids over to meet me! I really hope they all come hang out this winter. There can never be enough chickadees!
That is so sweet. I don't have the feeders going over summer either, but like you I have seeds on hand for them should any come by. :) How awesome about them bringing their kids to meet you. So much sweetness.
Yes, if you have seeds around they will bring the fledglings along. Hopefully you don't have a cat problem.
I feed them All Year but it seems in summer time they don't depend on the seeds like they do in the cold weather conditions ..but the dove's they are waiting for me like clock work I feed them chicken scratch I got from the local feed store.
I feed them early in the morning and evening
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I saw these cute little birds yesterday maybe three 🥰
Fascinating! I loved the food caching info. Especially about the hippocampus expanding and then going back to original size in Spring. Nature never ceases to amaze! Great video!
I love chickadees, but never knew about the self-regulating body temperatures...it is truly remarkable that they can lower their body temp that much! Being able to remember where they stash so much food is pretty awesome too...I can't find my glasses if I put them down for a second...😄 Thanks for your wonderful videos and photos...I actually just started a drawing from one of your chickadee photos from a while ago.
Thank you again Lesley. Due to my low vision, I can't see these small birds so well. But your videos, on my phone, I can see much more details. So, I hope that you are able to continue doing these videos, as they are very interesting & entertaining for me. Good health to you and your mate.
I'm so sorry it's that way, but happy that you can at least enjoy seeing them in good detail through videos like these. Thank you for the encouragement and nice wishes to me and my mate. We appreciate that a lot. Good health to you too.
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I like their sundden movements so 🥰 cute
Hi I love ❤️ all Bird 🦅 Videos they’re interesting and informative 🐦 thank you for sharing 😎
Birds are pretty darn awesome. Glad you enjoyed this video. ☺️🐦
I love that they hang upside down and they store food!
It is fun watching them do that. Little show offs haha!
Absolutely my favorite bird. Years ago I would feed them by hand and a certain pair would wait for me in the driveway to arrive home and fill the feeders… they’d often fly right into my face to get my attention and demand that I do my duty. And I’ve noticed as well that they are very opportunistic and inquisitive. They seem to explore everything that is available to them. So much to love about these little stinkers.
That is exactly how Chickadees are. They do not mind getting up close and personal, very investigative too, haha! And you are so right, they are curious about almost everything in their environment.
I see that titmice can crossbreed with chickadees! It cracks me up to consider these two charismatic birds could be such closely kin. How pleasing, these sweet chickadees.
Black capped chickadees team up with nuthatches and tufted titmice when sweeping through the woods on a foraging run. They are something to watch!
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
I can't think of one chickadee trait that stands out as my favorite....everything they do is my favorite thing about them. But the one thing that made me fall in love with them in the first place is their sound. The almost erethreal "fee-bee" sounds I heard all the time made me pay attention to what bird was making that sound. Many, many years later they are among the dearest wild birds to me.
Thanks Lesley! They are one of my favorites!
Mine too!
I love their 'chickachickadeedee' song.
My favorite thing about them is they're always here in N. Georgia. I can count on them after others have left. I'm on my front porch right before sunset, I call it "evening fill up"! The hummingbirds are tanking up at the nectar bar while the finches & chickadees hit the seed feeder. There's plenty of native plants for everybody too & I've not used a spec of chemicals this year! I let a lot of things self seed & have been rewarded greatly. I adore my little winged friends & love providing a place for them here. They reward me with their company & sweet songs!
I love chickadees, even their name is adorable. Their teeny tiny little eggs. Their sweet little faces. 💕
I saw a chickadee for the first time this week here in cape town south africa 😀😀😀
Interesting 🧐 about the changes in the hippocampus.
My favorite chickadee abilities are to make me laugh and not take life so seriously. Thanks, Leslie, your videos are always bright spots in my day. :)
I love Chickadees! When I lived in northern NH, I would make sure my feeders were all filled every morning in the winter. I had them(Chickadees) and Goldfinches always at my feeders. I really miss seeing these cute and beautiful birds since I moved to southern NH.
There are not as many or so it seems down here as compared to the north.
Love your channel. Not only do I learn things that I did not know before, but also I get to see those gorgeous Blue Jays!
Thank you.
You got me into birding ... thanks so much!
Wonderful! Love it :)
These guys are one of my favorite! The fact they can lower their body temp and remember where they hid food is amazing! I was wondering if they migrate?
Chickadees aren't migratory, not in the way other birds are, heading south. They just kind of move around a very short distance within their range. For example chickadees at higher elevations may migrate to lower elevations over winter, other than that they stay in their area year round pretty much.
New sub here! Your footage is gorgeous. Your videos are both breathtaking and informative. Thank you.🙋
Hey Lydia, thanks so much and welcome aboard. I hope you enjoy the content. 💜🐦
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I am already bingeing
Love your videos Leslie, your voice is so soothing and calming and the content is interesting and informative. Thank you 🙌
Hey Gary, thanks a lot
Glad you enjoy them
Good golly,Miss Molly; I luv Chickadees. 10/10 cuteness, toughness and all around skill .set
Hahaha, thank you for the fun and nice comment. :) I agree with your rating of the chickadees
Great video and communication. Keep up the good job. Thanks.
Aww absolutely Amazing!!~*
As usual very informative and beautiful. I💕 love these precious little birds. Black Caped Chickadees are one of my favorite,
"Little 🪶Gems"!!~*
Aren't they though?! Incredible little birds. Thanks for dropping by :)
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I wish I could expand my hippocampus 🤯☺️ great video, of course, thanks!
Haha! Yea, that would be quite helpful. Thank for stopping by
My favourite little bird. I just love them and their singing. It always makes me smile when I hear them.🤗❤️
I have a few that come to my feeders their so adorable and friendly ❤️
Thank you 💓 this video and chickadees. They are the cutest and one of the most interesting birds❣️
You're welcome and thank you so much. Chickadees really are so very cute
They always make me smile! 😊
this prompted some reading, even though most of was technical and over my head.
Great video of the chickadees Lesley! Thanks for sharing the adventure with us!💖😎👍JP
Thank you my friend. I'm glad you came along :)
@@LesleytheBirdNerd Your very welcome Lesley! :) Have a wonderful week my Friend!😎
Chickadees are awsome! great video!
This was a fantastic video - very interesting facts! Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm still not racing first.
... nor, catching it.🤣😂🤣
Thank you for all you do Lesley! I am a new birder and your channel is so educational and most importantly....fun!
Hey, you're so welcome. It's and absolute pleasure to share all the knowledge and research about our wonderful bird buddies :)
Thanks for such an adorable video
I am so glad that you enjoyed this video, thank you for watching it :)
What a wonderful video, thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
I found a nest in my dryer vent, so the Mom abandoned them. I'm praying I can hatch and feed
I’m making a friend ….this babe landed within 10” from me filling feeder……
That's is wonderful. I'm happy for you 🥰🐦
Oh wow that is so fascinating! I did not know these Chickadee facts.
Awesome I'm so glad that you learned some new things about these wonderful birds 🐦
AWW SO CUTE I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THEY GIVE ME IDEALS FOR MY BABIES MY 🐦 I SAW A YOUNG CHICKADEE THE OTHER DAY WHEN I WENT OUTSIDE TO PUT SOME CORNBREAD AND BLACKOIL SUNFLOWER SEEDS AND HANG UP A SUET CAKE IYT WAS MAKING A NOISE LIKE BEE BEE BEE BEE I SAID HI YOU HUNGRY IT FLEW HIGH IN THE TREE 🌳 I WISH THEY WOULD NOT BE SO AFRAID OF ME I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I WOULD NEVER DELIBERATELY HURT THEM I ENJOY FEEDING AMD CARING FOR THEM WELL MAYBE ONE DAY THEY WILL TRUST ME
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
💖💖💖!!!
Hey sorry I'm late Quick question, how long do chickadees hibernate, I'm a bird nerd too 😅
Sorry been busy lately and haven't commented much...I wonder if the Chickadee has any genetic relation to Hummingbirds..They share similar traits...Good vīd!!
no apologies necessary :) That's an intriguing question, I don' know enough to say for sure but would love to find a good source on the genetic relationships between various birds and their closeness.
While southern birds can take care of themselves with temperate climate Falls and Winters - northern birds, snow, rain, ice, cold, wind, and blizzard are a different matter.
I had a winter in W Bloomfield, MI in 1983, in which we put out a bird feeder and spilled ground feed - and that winter - recorded to the Audobon bird count (of which they - refused? - to admit the count - we had woodpeckers, cardinals, thrush, and every sort of other common tweeties, nearly 175+ at the feeder that it was truly amazing. One could only take a picture and then challenge anybody challenging your statements as BS.
If you do have forest birds in the nearby woods, then consider - suet with medium ground nuts (not whole peanuts etc), mixed with light veg oil, a little molasses or honey (vs white sugar), mangel (livestock sugar) beet slices (iron and sugar), carrot mix (Vit A), some real cranberries or cranberry juice (or rose hips, VIt C), milo milllet, sorghum, cracked/ground barley/buckwheat/oats (no rice !), - and ground mushroom of medicinal shrooms (Vit A, B complex, C, D and E and immunity factors !). Go throughout the forest and the noted wood pile where wood thrush and brown wood tweeties frequent and slather up a tree trunk or small twigs near the nest. You would be amazed in how (instead of the blue jays screaming out INTRUDER ! INTRODER ! - and the little brown tweeties screeching and hiding), they will be silent or calm when you walk (or curious and gathering) through THEIR residence zones. Maybe they will even accept you into the territory - for that territorial bribe of sweet treats for royal travel passes ....
With recent research there is even the reason why deciduous trees drop their red-orange-yellow leaves - as they are deep red-orange as anti-oxidants and immunity anthocyanins and sugars, while the orange-yellows are the Vit As and sugars needed for the Spring growths. Making a special ground up mix of this for the tweeties - just like modern humans taking anthcyranins (and luteins) for immunity and eye health - these anti-oxidants, immunity factors, sugars, and vitamins also provide a substantial source of healthy nutrition for the tweeites - in digestible form.
With domestic birds near your actual home and habitat, then consider wrapping a loosely branched low-level tree with shrink wrap or saran wrap, and create a domed windbreak that the tweeties can enter under and into - and be weather-and-wind-temperature safe. Having grown human civilized berries or wilderness berry plants in the area - they can provide the necessary fruits, juices, and sugars for their over-wintering. One might even consider having a honey-and-bee pollen (with a little royal jelly) suet mix and give them a strong immunity. This is easier done than said (!).
And don't forget your local craft brewery and their post-brew mash - which is a massive food and nutrient source for tweeties - with beer vitamins (B complex), minerals, sugars, starches, proteins), fiber, ... Mix that into any suet or plain mix with a drywall spatula into the cracks and crannies of the tree barks. Any insects will also come to the spot - and be more protein for the tweeties as well !
There is so much more that we can do for the tweeties during the over-wintering period, and giving them proper, safe, healthy, (and nutritious) environments for their Spring outcoming and abundance - in return favor for eating up the ants, earwigs, pill bugs, mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, no-see-ums, .... and delivering a co-habitation existance of a peaceful sanctuary realm of humans and critters.
You have some very lucky bird friends with you watching out for them. 😊
@@scrubjay93 they take care of the bugs, they do all the entire area 18/7/365 surveillance and notice-calling, ... one would almost expect to see flock-harassment of unknown perps on the land, and like Leslie - have them as friendly-friends that will come up and (both of us) joyously enjoy some interactive hand-feeding time.
I love the Chickadees. They stayed away for quite a while because the Jays took over the bird feeders. I have moved things around so that the smaller birds can feed without being bumped and pushed by the Jays. It is so nice to hear their little beeps again. They are so brave and they come to greet me, especially if I am a few minutes late bringing out the food in the morning.
me too and saw some two days ago 😊
I love chickadees, they make me smile with their joyous attitude!!! And they stay with us all winter long, so courageous. Thanks for that beautiful video. 😍
It’s impossible not to help them out during the cold months. They’re such cute little troopers, they deserve a reward.
Many years back I was able to "train" the Chestnut-backed Chickadees at my house to take pine nuts from my hand, but the Black-capped Chickadees have always been tougher to tame. Pine nuts are the greatest for enticing them! (Same for the Douglas squirrels.) Sometimes they would find me working in the garden or up on a ladder pruning trees and land on my hand and peck my fingers until I went to the house to get them nuts. Once I had some young Mormon missionaries stop by my house and the chickadees were at the front door--I got them some pine nuts and they got to have the chickadees feed from their hands, which was really fun. 🤗 At one point I could call them to me from quite a distance when they were up in the firs around the house. One thing I love about chickadees is that they are so brave. Most songbirds if you hold them will be so frightened that they are motionless, but a chickadee will peck at your hands as if they can vanquish the giant monster holding them. I experienced this when doing bird-banding, but also when they occasionally come into the house and become confused at a window and have to be carried out. Such a teeny ball of fluff with a beak the size of a grain of rice, but they say "I will fight you!". 🥰 I can't afford to buy them pine nuts anymore, but they will settle for peanuts or walnuts if they must. I love finding out about the brain size increase for food caching memory 😮--evolution is endlessly amazing; thanks for sharing that!
lol so true. Thanks a lot for sharing your story, made me smile just thinking about them.
You are so kind. I love that, and your great love of birds. I can tell that you are kind to other humans, too. Thank you. The planet needs more kindness. 🥰❤️😁
Between the birds and the chipmunks, this summer we've found literally no less than 100 sunflower plants growing all around our property from dropped seeds and seed caches. The black oil sunflower seeds grow so easily that I planted a handful in a flower bed. I'm pretty sure every single one sprouted. I'm so pleased with the experimental patch that we're planning more flowerbeds just to plant more sunflowers next year! It makes your day better when you look outside in the morning and see Chickadees and Blue Jays cheerfully having their breakfast! Lol 💕
I love this! How darn cute is that?! You have your own little gardeners 🥰 I have always wanted to see a sunflower or two pop up around here but haven't. And I agree, it is so nice watching all the birds cheerfully enjoying their breakfast. 😊
I had several volunteer this year. A stunning mahogany came up at the garden edge & reached 10 feet! I had to tie it to a fencepost. The finches are on it so thick, the flowers bob around. Can't wait to see where they come up next year!
Love these lil guys. How they hang upside down to get at berries and such is quite amusing. Their ability to cache food and remember the location for up to a month is the most remarkable thing about them, in my opinion. Nice video, Lesley
It is such a treat to see one of them hanging upside down. Lovely little birds and I agree, the memory their tiny noggins have is impressive.
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I saw some yesterday 😊
@@LesleytheBirdNerd their so 🥰 upsidedown 🙃
A few weeks ago, I witnessed a chickadee pair teaching one of their young ones how to fly. Took the little one a few tries, but impossible to fail with all the cajoling, encouraging and hovering by it's 'helicopter parents' !
What a beautiful thing to witness
How sweet!
I've always adored these colorful and bold birds. They seem to have very little fear of humans and come close. I have 2 acres and spend about $300.00 on feed for all birds and wildlife. So my little friends don't have to struggle for food to stay healthy and warm. It's the best money I've ever spent! Thanks for the information about these glorious little birds. .....
Many thanks
Chickadees never fail to be adorable. 💞💞 Going on a tangent: I've watched and loved your videos of you feeding and getting to know chickadees and other birds through generations. Would you be interested in making a video about the family trees of your (named) bird friends? Example: Alpha/Marxine > Tiny/Tim > Mini-Tim/Angel ... and isn't Bud Tiny's brother/Mini-Tim's uncle? Yikes, I sound way too invested, but hey, you've shown us so much about these birds' lives; I'm curious. 😉
Wow! It always amazes me when other people follow the birds Ive gotten to know so well. I really should get back into do some older style videos again. Thanks for the lovely comment
That is amazing about there hippocampus Lesley, thanks for all the research you do! I love these little darlings, always amazes me how they make it through these harsh winters, they are so hardy!💖
Chickadees are sooo cute and adorable~💞
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
The Chickadees and Goldfinches are my favorites 😍... a big personality in such a little package!
God created everything and saw that it was good ☝️💖
I LOVE birds 🐦 watching and listening to them sing, chirp and converse with each other. It's literally music 🎶 🎵 to my ears and makes my heart ❤️ happy!! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord 🙌 🙌
Thank you for your awesome videos, info and facts. Stay well and be safe 🙏 ❤️
Texas Nana 🤠
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Thank you, glad you enjoy
I can bird watch for hours. Thanks for sharing 😍🐦
Thanks for visiting
I have Chickadees here all the time, Black Capped, Chestnut Backed, and sometimes Mountain Chickadees. They love suet, and though I usually see two at a time, there is a family of six out there now. This would be their second clutch. I didn't know they cached food though! Thanks Lesley!
Strangely, i had a chickadee fly right to me, land on my hand while i was refilling their water dish, look sidewise at me for a few blinks. She/he than drank a few sips of water, looked at me again blinking a few more times, and than flew to a nearby tree. I was so flattered and astonished. Needless to say, that made my day🥰
They're as dependable and as constant as anything I can think of! Bon weekend from French Canada 🇨🇦 🎶 Everyday is Saturday night but I can't wait for Sunday morning 🌄
So true!
@@LesleytheBirdNerd chickadees are so tiny weenie 👌
@@LesleytheBirdNerd their like Cottonballs☁️🥰
Your channel is incredible, I learned so much watching your videos. Thank you!
My mother takes issue with the birds somewhat robotic motions. I told my mother that I quite enjoy that. But why do birds not have a fluid movement especially with their head? I told my mother that I would ask you.
Also, were avian dinosaurs that twitchy?
You have me intrigued, I have never considered that about them before. I'm going to have to see if there is anything out there on this. Thanks for bringing up to me :)
This reminds me of a video from another birder- Jo Alwood- about the processing speed of a bird's brain. *Note: the video is about juncos, but this could easily apply to other birds as well.* Their head movements are quick and jerky because they are taking mental snapshots of every observable detail in their environment. This in turn is because life can be extremely dangerous for birds; they must always be alert and ready to flee in a flash. Human brains (and many other animal brains) don't process things nearly as fast, so birds notice things that we'd either miss or give ourselves whiplash trying to catch.
If anyone's interested, here's a link to Jo Alwood's video:
th-cam.com/video/_bbAi0XmzuA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JoAlwood
I have also wondered that about tiny dinosaurs after watching birds, trying to picture what that would look like. I imagine that the faster you move your head, the more places you can look for food in an instant--probably why they can also turn their heads in so many directions?
One of those nice birds you can find here all year long! Thank you.
Please talk about chickadees' incredible communication abilities- with their fellow chickadees as well as with other bird species.
Me suffering from migraines hearing that part about their hippocampus expanding 30% ouch.
I hope you feel better very soon. Take care
Thank you for stopping by to watch. :)
Excellent video with amazing information. Their cognitive skills amazed me! Beautiful photography. Someday I hope to see a Boreal… I just love my black capped friends 💓.
These little birds have been one of my favorites since I saw them :] thank you for sharing your knowledge about birds :D
It's easy to see why you gravitated toward them, who would have though that such a small bird would have such a gravitational pull, haha! (What a geek I am.)
I'm glad you enjoyed learning about these darling birds. :)
@@LesleytheBirdNerd lol
I LOVE my chickadees!! There were SO many of them in spring but now it's mainly the house finch. ... which are chatty & I loved watching the males turn red. Thank you for your love of the chickadee .... I've learned so much about them thanks to your video's!!! 💖💞💕🐦🐦
Chickadees are wonderful. I do bird species surveys and there's lots of Carolina Chickadees. I try not to taken them for granted. I always look forward to hearing their calls each time. FWIW, nesting is over in NE Oklahoma and the Chickadees are grouping up with Tufted Titmouse, Downy Woodpecker, White Breasted Nuthatch especially to form interspecies foraging groups. Brown Creepers will join them later when they arrive for the winter.
I work for pharmaceutical company that explore drugs promoting neurogenesis. I can’t remember how many times I’ve dissected mice hippocampi to analyze their transcriptomes. I strongly suspect we can learn a lot from chickadee amazing ability! However, it is likely that they are not good model unlike mice that are easy to rear and evolutionarily closer to us.
Thank you Leslie! I recently introduced my 76 year old father to birding. I put up feeders outside his living room. We get chickadees, Gosbeaks, finches, thrushes, ringneck doves (We throw seed in the ground for them) and so many more.
I have the Peterson's guide out on the table and have taught him how to look up all our little friends.
This video will be shared tomorrow at morning coffee when I go over to see him in these great woods of southern Washington!
The grey Jays are my absolute favorites. I see them in early fall. They chase away the Stellar Jays it seems. Such polite camp robbers lol. I love their subtle "meep meep" calls.
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You had me exclaiming Wow over and over again!
That's awesome. I'm so glad you enjoyed the information I shared on these wonderful little birds. :)
I ordered a cup from you for my wife who lives on coffee, the shipping handling made it very broken. I'm not mad about it.
I hope to use art of kintsugi to fix for her and make something more special :)
Awww no way. That's not good. Did you buy it through Bonfire or Teespring? Both have great costumer service, I would contact them and see what they can do for you. So sorry this happened
my email is lesleythebirdnerd@gmail.com if you would like to reach out to me
@@LesleytheBirdNerd don't worry about it, I bought mug moreso to support you. Enjoy your night :) I believe teespring if that matters for you
You're very kind. Thank you and you enjoy your night too. :)
WOW amazimg thank you 💫💫💫
A Chickadee lightened my spirit during a difficult time. I'll never forget. ♥️
Awww I love ❤️ that
The chickadees near our feeder sometimes use their warning calls to scare away the sparrows long enough to grab some seeds for themselves. There's no danger around but they call out their warning as a trick. They don't do it very much but when they do it's a clever way to keep away the dominant and aggressive sparrows!
That's really neat! I don't recall seeing the ones here doing that toward House sparrows, but I have seen them seemingly trick each other. Fun birds
Absolutely astonishing! The adaptations they make 'automatically' show an extraordinary evolutionary process. I read somewhere that in some song birds, the part of their brain responsible for the songs they sing to attract a mate, increase in size in the Spring to enable them to create and repeat complex songs. Nature is so fascinating! Great video, Thankyou Lesley!
It's really quite an amazing process. Thank you for checking out the video. That is true about songbirds. So many fascinating things about birds.
I have Chickadees visit my bird feeders. They are such cute little birds! Thank you Leslie for your informative videos!
Glad you like them!
Have a great evening all.
You too!
My favorite. I can't choose a favorite thing about them!
Everything is a favorite haha :)
Chickadees are awesome and so are you Lesley. Great video!
:) making me blush. Thank you
My favorite part of this video was how Chickadees can remember where they stored their food
I know hey, that is pretty awesome how they can do that.
I love the times I’ve hand feed chickadees they don’t just grab a seed and fly away but stop and look up at you like “Who are you?are these seeds for me?”
These little busy guys aren’t shy either and will eat in your hand. In the woods near my place, people feed them regularly and so even on our first time, they perched on our hands to sort out the seed they wanted to steal away, one after the other.
Yes they can be brave little ones for sure
They just leave me with the impression they are the smartest and strongest.
For such a small bird you really have to take your hat off to them. They are tough little guys and clearly very clever.
WHO KNEW?!?! THANK YOU FOR this fantastic video on one of my very ‘favorite’ birds!!
I think their versatility of chickadees is the best trait they have. I was at Quanah Parker lake in Oklahoma tofu nd the chickadees were giving the business, obviously there was a nest nearby. Such adaptable birds!
Love your channel!
Also chicadoooooo... Remember where they put stuff? Yeah I'm sticking with that joke
The Tit family is my favorite bird family. The Black-capped Chickadee and the Tufted Titmouse are 2 of my favorite local birds. The energy, intelligence, and vocalizations of the Black-capped Chickadee are amazing.
I have a story about a chickadee. It got me in trouble. It's a very long story... too long. Amazing birds. Maybe my fav. But I have a few favs...
I didn’t know all those things about Chickadees! Fascinating!! All those babies….Whew! I feed them year round here on the Oregon coast. I buy sunflower seeds in 50 lb bags! Most of mine are brown not black. Thanks for your great videos!! 🐣
So, if their hippo campuses get bigger, doesn't that just mean that more hippos come onto campus because they want to learn.....about things like chickadees and stuff? OK, I'm not sure that joke worked. Nonetheless, it's interesting that part of their brains expand, allowing them to 'map' their horde of food. I need to do this so I can recall where I put my cell phone or my car keys. Hippocampus. I wonder why they didn't call it a rhinocampus.
What I meant to say was, "Interesting vid and facts about one of the most fun-to-watch birds in N. America". Now, where did I put that bag of chips? I'm going to see a brain surgeon this week to see about having my hippocampus enlarged by at least 50%. I wonder what the size of the hippocampus is in a hippo. If they don't horde food, it's probably smaller than a chickadee's.
I didn't know they could shrink and expand their brain. I didn't know they could lower their temperature. They are one of my favorites.
Changing brain size means neuroplasticity. We humans probably have that too.
That brain grows with it summer needs and watching their abilities to cover the entire branch every angle.
Thanks Lesley Bird Neard yes you have " Super Powers "also........