Date: 11/6/24 6:55 am From: Ted Levin <tedlevin1966...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] 06 November 2024: Hurricane Hill (1,100 feet), WRJ
The *dees* may stop as they come to accept your generosity.
On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 9:53 AM Charlie Teske <cteske140...>
wrote:
> Sounds like I'm not going to get a big tip for my service.
>
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> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 09:48:40 -0500, Ted Levin <tedlevin1966...>
> wrote:
>
> The more the *dees*, the more annoyed or nervous the chickadee. You may get
> one or two, but the sitting owl receives an explosion of *dees*.
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 9:29 AM Charlie Teske
> wrote:
>
> > Do you know what chick-a-dee dee dee means? Every day when I fill the
> > feeder the nearest chickadee repeats that song. I wonder if it is a thank
> > you or a what took you so long, or just a dinner is served notice to his
> > chums?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 08:42:58 -0500, Ted Levin
> > wrote:
> >
> > 6:17 a.m. The Day After. Fifty-four degrees, wind South 6 miles per hour,
> > gusting to 16. Diaphanous mist under a big, textured sky, colors soft and
> > painterly. Across the east, reaching into the north, high pastel pink
> > clouds grade to orange—stationary as the hills below. Low, mostly dull
> gray
> > clouds scud north at a slow but steady clip. In anticipation of the sun,g
> > small, oblong clouds above Hurricane Hill glow. Pink becomes orange,
> > becomes luminous silver. Then, the sun ... a cradle of hope, appears—like
> > it always has—four-and-a-half billion years and counting. A high
> > contemplative crow, silent as stone, heads north, brushed by daylight.
> > Another heads west, complaining all the way. Thirteen species of birds,
> > including red-tailed hawk, mourning dove, American robin, red- and
> > white-breasted nuthatches, blue jay, golden-crowned kinglet, tufted
> > titmouse, black-capped chickadee, northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, and
> > American goldfinch.
> >
> > Chickadees: scatter hoarders, scattering and hoarding. Feathered
> Einsteins.
> > Joyfully, chickadees hide thousands of sunflower seeds in front-yard
> lilac,
> > crabapple, and the twigs of brooding maples. Behind flaps of bark and
> > inside tufts of evergreen needles. Back and forth, feeder to trees. One
> > seed at a time. Despite weighing less than a playing card, chickadee has
> a
> > brilliant memory. To find the seeds later in winter, tiny brains swell
> and
> > become storage vessels for vast information. Deep inside the brain, the
> > hippocampus recalls the location of 80,000 seeds—a memory built at the
> > expense of spiders. Every May, adult chickadees gather spiders from the
> > eaves of my house and garage. Spiders provide chicks with *taurine, *the
> > essential nutrient that promotes healthy brain development. The result
> ...
> > phenomenal memory.
> >
> > On a dark day, find an industrious chickadee. That they're cheerful,
> > animated, beneficial, gregarious, tolerant, and cute helps, too.
> >
> >
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