my chickadees also enjoy hummer nectar
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 8:17 PM Hartmut Peters <
tuoichen at gmail.com> wrote:
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Dan asked about tweets concerning non-hummingbird visitors of hummingbird
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feeders. Well, we have been having black-capped chickadees drinking from
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hummingbird feeders for a few (?) years. (We lost those yellow "baskets"
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that fend off yellow jackets.) Then, some weeks ago, the chickadees were
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joined by a sugar-addicted Hutton's vireo. That guy/gal hasn't been back,
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alas, hence no photos. I was going to do a tweet on that but the
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non-reppearance of the vireo threw a wrench into it. I was going to add
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some notes on smart birds learning to tackle our suet (other than
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chickadees and bushtits and Downeys). That's juncos, a song sparrow and a
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wren, house finches still being too dumb. But the smart Bewick's wren has't
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shown up lately either. Anyhow, some photos are here:
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/cFYmJ276LCUVwijz6
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There is one video clip taken at 480 frames per second and shown at 16x
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slow down. The whole 40 s clip corresponds to just 2.9 s real time. Note
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that that addict chickadee is leucistic. She/he has been named Leucy by us.
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The collection also has a photo of Speckly, our leucistic dark-eyed junco.
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She/he has been around for quite some time.
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Hartmut
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