Brazen Little Dickens
Via Cute Overload. If you’ve ever attracted chickadees to your feeders, you know how they are…
Chickadees man…they’re like that. I get scolded in the winter months when I go outside and there isn’t anything in the feeders. And then I get sassed on the way back inside after I’ve filled them up again. But they’re lots of fun to watch.
Attract them with sunflower seeds, and a feeder that they can hang off of, but larger birds can’t. You’ll hear them before you see them, their distinctive deedeedee call coming from here and there in a nearby tree. If you watch carefully you’ll see them flit from one branch to another, getting closer and closer to the feeder. Then they’ll dart in like little arrows, grab a seed and fly back to a nearby branch. They put the seed between their feet and whack it a few times with their beak and then pry out the innards. Then it’s back to the feeder for another one.