Later, we saw no one, and listened for the calls of chickadees and nuthatches.
They slept peacefully, curled in their separate blankets, and woke to the wintertime scolding of chickadees.
As Paloma Plant, a FLAP employee, picked up the two dead birds, waves of chickadees swept overhead, narrowly avoiding collision.
And in the cause of science, we dutifully tallied the totals for dozens or hundreds of chickadees, herring gulls, Canada geese, starlings and other abundant locals.
The birds line up on the boughs of a pignut hickory, and swoop on to the feeders by twos and threes, titmice and juncos, a crowd of chickadees and a demure pair of cardinals.
In his book "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature," he notes how larger birds like woodpeckers and titmice will join a flock of chickadees in winter.
A little grove of Amelanchier grandiflora looks as if it might well have always stood right here next to this striking new contemporary home, especially when a flock of chickadees land to gorge themselves on the autumn fruit.
Since then, because Starlings battle so fiercely for nest holes in trees, they have displaced and reduced the natural populations of chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, purple martins, and various other swallows.
Pravosudov et al. [ 38] report on two populations of chickadees that differ in spatial memory performance and Armbrecht et al. [ 39] compared control mice and mice with impaired memory performance.
It is tempting to think of chickadee syllables as playing a role akin to segments in human speech.
