faerye ,
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Took the camera out for this golden-crowned sparrow today but every angle on em had foliage in the way! The pair of chestnut-backed chickadees were much more generous in their poses :)

A wee tiny bird perched at the end of a dead blossom from last summer. Its high contrast head stripes are espresso-bean brown, not black, and its back is a jaunty russet. It has a glinting tiny eye, and its head-feathers are just slightly mussed!
Chickadee perching with a wide stance on a dead twig of shrub. Its disproportionally large talons are overlapping as it clings to the meager stem. This close, we can see that its eye as well as its soft, slightly messy head feathers, are a rich dark brown rather than black like its more common black-capped cousin. Its medium-sized omnivorous beak points sharply out in profile like the continuation of its tapering white cheek stripe, pointing at the world it will freely explore.

loren ,
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@faerye oh those little espresso fiends are so cute!

faerye OP ,
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@loren I love ‘em! One (unless they were taking turns) was raiding the feeder for hulled sunflower seeds and takin’ em to a lilac bush to scarf or stash. Keeping in touch loudly the whole time of course!

loren ,
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@faerye gotta stay in touch!

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