Posted by mushrooms on Mar 09, 2008 in Main
Returning from a walk with the dog, I almost stepped on a baby chickadee. It was about the size of a ping-pong ball, and it was extremely cute.
I picked it up and put it on a branch. And I watched. A Mommy or Daddy chickadee was also watching, flying around protectively.
Later that day, I saw the same little bird. It was learning to fly. It would fly down from a branch and then hop back up the tree trunk, a few inches at a time, back to the branch to try again. Mommy and Daddy were watching over it.
It was really neat.