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Thursday, January 14, 2021

"...When January brings new faces!"

This is an image of the words to a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "The Chickadee." It reads: Piped a tiny voice hard by, Gay and polite, a cheerful cry, " Chic-chicadee-dee! " Saucy note Out of a sound heart and a merry throat, As if it said, " Good day, good sir. Fine afternoon, old passenger! Happy to meet you in these places When January brings new faces! "
"THE CHIKADEE" BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

As promised in my last entry (published on 1-7-2021), I'm back in the blogging saddle for now. My absence wasn't so long when I consider it has been over eight years (November 18th 2012) since I heard the sound which poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, calls the "gay and polite" "cheerful cry" of a Chickadee occcuring in my rooftop garden but I heard it this morning.It truly took me by surprise to notice one of this bird type at a bird bath that is located in the northern portion of my place. 

I was totally unprepared (especially camera wise) for such a sighting on this cold day in the third week of January so my picture of this visitor is not remarkeable as evidenced below...

This image features a chickadee perched on the ledge of a bird bath that is on the floor of my garden. Wikipedia describes this bird as "The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family, the Paridae. It is the state bird of Massachusetts and Maine in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its ability to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand)." I mention chickadees in my three volume book series "Words In Our Beak.'" Info re these books is in another blog post @ https://www.thelastleafgardener.com/2018/10/one-sheet-book-series-info.html
CHIKADEES ARE REFERENCED IN WIOB*

Seconds later, I realized the creature had a partner who availed him/herself of a snack from one of my bird feeders (as seen in the next picture)...

This image features a chickadee perched on the ledge of a bird feeder that hangs from a pole in my garden. Wikipedia describes this bird as "The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family, the Paridae. It is the state bird of Massachusetts and Maine in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its ability to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand)." I mention chickadees in my three volume book series "Words In Our Beak.'" Info re these books is in another blog post @ https://www.thelastleafgardener.com/2018/10/one-sheet-book-series-info.html
CHICKADEES ARE REFERENCED IN WIOB*

... but again I was totally unprepared (camera wise) for such a visit.

A few beats later they flew off quickly to settle within branches of Ailanthus Trees in my courtyard...

This image features a chickadee perched on the branch of an Ailanthus tree in my courtyard. Wikipedia describes this bird as "The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family, the Paridae. It is the state bird of Massachusetts and Maine in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its ability to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand)." I mention chickadees in my three volume book series "Words In Our Beak.'" Info re these books is in another blog post @ https://www.thelastleafgardener.com/2018/10/one-sheet-book-series-info.html
CHICKADEES ARE REFERENCED IN WIOB*

This image features a chickadee perched on the branch of an Ailanthus tree in my courtyard. Wikipedia describes this bird as "The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family, the Paridae. It is the state bird of Massachusetts and Maine in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its ability to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand)." I mention chickadees in my three volume book series "Words In Our Beak.'" Info re these books is in another blog post @ https://www.thelastleafgardener.com/2018/10/one-sheet-book-series-info.html
CHICKADEES ARE REFERENCED IN WIOB*

I certainly got much pleasure in the visit from these litle ones and I hope they don't wait another eight years to return.

*WIOB is the abbreviation for the title of my book series, Words In Our Beak which reference Chickadees.

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