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Hand-feeding mountain chickadees

Most of the winter you will need snowshoes or skis, but 2020-21 had relatively little snowfall (at least through mid-January) and the snow got fairly hard and compacted through repeated daily freezing and melting cycles. It reminded me of mountaineering in SoCal, where snowshoes are rarely required. I hiked up there in my boots.

 

According to Wikipedia, chickadees are of the same genus as the birds called "tits" in Europe, hence the tag. Sorry to disappoint.

 

2023 edit: According to the latest science, feeding the chickadees is not harmful for them: mitchbarrie.net/files/stats_and_articles/dont_feed_the_be...

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Uploaded on January 17, 2021
Taken on January 17, 2021