Chickadee visitor
Description: Small, with a solid black cap and bib, white cheeks, greenish-gray back, white-buffy stomach, dark gray wings and long tail.
Winter habits: On cold winter nights, Chickadees conserve energy by lowering their body temperature by 10 to 15 degrees F. While this may seem counterproductive, “nocturnal hypothermia” probably reduces energy expenditure by as much as ten percent.
Feeding: On average, Black Capped Chickadees eat about 70% insects (larva, caterpillars, spiders), snails, and 30% seeds and berries (e.g., sunflower, conifer, milkweed, goldenrod, ragweed any bayberry and poison ivy berries). They enjoy suet, and will eat mealworms. They cache food.
Irrigation system
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| ... my irrigation consists of one plastic sprinkler |
"To minimize the risk of freeze damage to your irrigation system, you’ll need to "winterize" your irrigation system." Oops...
1 comment:
so very cute!!
the chickadee.
not the irrigation head.
:-P
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