Hey Marg, I may have to agree with you here. I thought a chickadee was a woodpecker the other day. Maybe they just grow bigger out west of the city but I could have sworn it was a woodpecker! :) It's nice to see and hear the little black caps in the morning and they seem to like to hang out in my cherry tree until the dogs fly out to debird the yard! :)

Ginny

Ginny, we have some fat ones here to - usually they are smaller. I have to put a wire cage around the feeder and thought it would keep out the starlings but no such luck. I was going to make the cage holes smaller but the woodpeckers wouldn't be able to get in then and now the fat chickadees wouldn't be able to get in either! When we put up the feeders we planted 2 pear trees close by, now every morning we get up to see 2 dove trees with chickadees interspersed. Rosie used to chase the smaller birds but now there's bigger game - crows & ravens! Marg

Maybe we're feeding them too much!

I am teased about that by my neighbours. I have the fattest birds in the city! The dogs play with the magpies and the odd crow. I think I have about 4 generations who wait for me every morning to feed them so they can in turn throw cat food to the dogs who are patiently waiting underneath. :) Silly birds, silly dogs, and even sillier human! :)

Ginny

Mine always look the same but I've noticed in previous years that they look really scraggly after the snow goes in the spring. I think they have a spring molt or something?

Hoping to have birds in a few years :( I miss birds. All the trees in our neighbourhood are still babies. The only birds we have are swallows one neighbour put up houses for them. Hubby wants to replace the sick and dying tree in our front yard with a big one this year it will cost more but maybe then we will get some birds. I would love to hear the sound of chickadees again.

Our chickadees haven't returned yet. I love their liitle song.

I was looking at our chickadees today and they look the same as always. Maybe the bigger ones are another type of chickadee? I think the Boreal chickadees are a bit larger than the Black-capped.