I have been watching chickadees and titmice in Mundy wildflower garden during lunch time. Today I came upon a pair of chickadees, one was quivering its wings and making squeaky noise and the other was doing chickree chickree, but I could not see the bird. So I stopped to look. Initially, they had not seen me so they continued their cooing, Then I saw the male he was not even four feet from me and he was also quivering his wings. Then the female noticed me. So she flew to branch behind me. The male followed and they quivered a bit and the male, who was doing chickaree chickaree gave something to her, i.e allofed her. Then he flew to a branch a couple of feet higher and sat and watched her. She took the food whatever he offered and beat it on the branch and ate it. They seemed so cute. I did not want to interfere in their affairs any more so I walked onwards.
A couple of days ago I watched two titmice, one was busy beating a samara on a bare branch, I think it was an Ash samara. I could not focus with my binoculars to see the seed, so the bird must be less than 10 feet away from me. She, I know it was she because later the male came and offered her another seed. After getting the seed out she went down again and she tossed some leaves and I think she knew where the ash seeds were as she landed right at the spot and picked the samara. This usggests that she was using visual cues to see the seeds. Couple of them she tossed after picking as they did not have any seed in them. She picked couple more and hopped on to a branch and ate them. Then the male came with another samara that contained a seed. She accepted it without much ado and ate it. These too looked very cute and down to earth couples. Then I left them to their business in search of Pileated, who was calling nearby. I have also been hearing two male titmice going back and forth in Mundy. One prefers to call "teacher teach you" and other goes either "speed speed speed" or 'Wait wait wait" They keep doing this during most of my walk. Today I also heard an EASTERN TOWHEE doing "towhee" from the north eastern corner of Mundy. A Carolina Wren was calling from across the Creek. I am waiting for the arrival of the Oriole! Cheers Meena -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
