Fair nomenclature. We get titmice most of the year.
Our windows look straight into the upper reaches of the woods of Rock Creek Park. Tulip poplars are the Big Trees 'round here, with bigwinged seeds like maples, known as samaras. Their seed pods array up, not down, which means the seeds tend to stay there til something disturbs them. Can last there that way right thru the winter.
I gaze into the woods a LOT. On a calm day sometimes there will be nothing to see but trees, when suddenly a spray of seeds falls – that is the sign to crane my neck upward to find a cardinal ravaging the seed cluster. Messy eaters.
I call the chickadees, my snow birds. They tend to eat in a frenzy in a group before it snows. Otherwise they are spread in groups of two or so.
That's interesting!
One of my favorites is the tufted titmouse, which my neighbor used to call, ( completely unironically, I believe) the Tough Titty Mouse.
Fair nomenclature. We get titmice most of the year.
Our windows look straight into the upper reaches of the woods of Rock Creek Park. Tulip poplars are the Big Trees 'round here, with bigwinged seeds like maples, known as samaras. Their seed pods array up, not down, which means the seeds tend to stay there til something disturbs them. Can last there that way right thru the winter.
I gaze into the woods a LOT. On a calm day sometimes there will be nothing to see but trees, when suddenly a spray of seeds falls – that is the sign to crane my neck upward to find a cardinal ravaging the seed cluster. Messy eaters.
Big beaked bird eats big seeds.