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12/6 - 12/17/19 chestnut-backed chickadee at our feeder |
We
are seeing a couple of new regularly visiting birds at our feeder lately: a
nuthatch and a chestnut-backed chickadee. Black-capped chickadees have been among
our most common visitors, but we’ve never noticed the chestnut-backed before
this year.
The
nuthatch is especially fast, furtive and unpredictable, so I have yet to
complete a sketch of one. But the chestnut-backed chickadee has visited often
enough that I’ve been able to sketch this much over the course of a couple of
weeks, adding a detail or two each time I see one. I apologize that it’s a
rather rough sketch to send you as my holiday greeting, but since chickadees
are frequently shown on Christmas cards and such, it will have to do. Merry
Christmas!
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12/25/19 |
Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cathy -- you, too!
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