A Carolina chickadee enjoys food from an unfamiliar feeder. Todd M. Freeberg, CC BY-ND. We found chickadees in flocks with titmice and nuthatches were more likely to figure out the feeder than ...

Carolina chickadees are small, boisterous year-round residents of the southeastern United States. They are regularly found with much larger tufted titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, and various ...

Chickadees and titmice, however, have tiny beaks and are unable to crack open a sunflower seed with their beaks alone. Instead, they grab a single seed with their beak and carry the morsel to a ...

Tufted titmice are very similar to chickadees in their social structures, so it won’t be much of a surprise to learn that they form small groups, too.

The East has chickadees, but not our Pacific coast specialty, the chestnut-backed chickadee. ... The tufted titmice of the East are arguably more colorful than our Californian oak titmice, ...

Titmice, cardinals and jays are all dominant over the chickadees and will cause them to scatter. Does the bird stay at the feeder to eat the seed, or does it fly away? Take time to watch and see.

Finally, from feeder birding to road birding! Here it is the middle of November and still we have days of glorious sun and startlingly blue skies. Occasionally the temperature drops below freezing in ...

Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.