6/17 Loose Lips

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Julie thanks for bringing me up to speed on your fledgling chickadees. It must be the neatest thing to see them and hear them. I love watching all the babies following mom around this time of year but have never seen fledgling chickadees with parents. Hmmm. Baby crows are the funniest! I love hearing them squawking.
 
Yes, thoughts are still with sandy over the loss of tessie lou .. We have to know she is happy and healthy, playing with all the other GA's ..

It is a gorgeous morning here today and hoping it continues .. will be going for a walk soon, started out with me and my SIL, then the neighbor across the street joined in and now another neighbor further down my road wants to join us! My neighbor started running yesterday .. I told her the only time I would be running is if something is after me :lol:

Tomorrow we will be going to my dad's for both fathers day celebration and my nieces 8th birthday so won't be around much for condo's, but I'll be thinking of each one of you .. I miss you guys when I can't get to your condos ..
 
Ooh, baby chickadee dee dee dees :-D I saw Eastern Buebirds checking out one of my boxes last month, but the swallows grrr, chased them away. Swallows take over all the boxes in the pond area. Grrr again.

:lol: @ Devon, running only if something is chasing her.....a girl after my own heart. :-D
 
Barb, swallows will only take a nest box that they can swoop up to. if there's a barricade they'll leave it alone. we have wire fencing hanging from our christmas light hooks on the front of our house. it's an unusually attractive decoration for the front porch, but the swallows have made the chickadees abandon their eggs before and they were back in full force. so i found an old tomato cage and another piece of wire and i hung them up. no more swallows.

i'll get another little video of them, but you can't see the babies, only hear them when the parents bring worms to feed them.
 
Thanks Julie, I'll remember that next year. :smile:
Meantime, I'm enjoying the litte wren scolding me, when I get too close to her box. :lol:
 
ok - got a minute and a half of the parents zipping in and out of the chickadee house. if you listen carefully you can hear the parents as they approach the house. they call back and forth to each other before actually flying in. the only other bird you can hear is a crow, which is pretty identifiable.

you can also hear the babies welcoming the food - every time a parent arrives at the house entrance the babies cut loose with a chorus welcoming them.

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