Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Suet-like

Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) will come to your hand if you offer them birdseed. Looks like they will also probably come to your hand if you’re dead in the snow…. These photos were taken from some distance, but I assume those are Grey Squirrel remains.It’s a cute-bird-eat-cute-mammal world out there, after all.

The omnivorous approach is the most adaptable to circumstances, like a heavy snowfall covering other food sources up.

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  1. Tufted and Chrysalis | Backyard and Beyond

    […] Does it seem strange that a Tufted Titmouse is going after an insect? Not if you have a suet feeder. Here’s a Tufted Titmouse scavenging a Winter Wren — and not even in winter yet. And here’s a Black-capped Chickadee pecking at a frozen mammal… […]

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