This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

January 15, 2013
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

Second-from-the-left black-capped chickadee went to sleep last night in a hole in a tree. It was 9 degrees, so a bunch of other black-capped chickadees jumped right in with it. Sometimes that kind of togetherness leaves a chickadee with a kink in its tail, where it got bent against the wall of the hole.

Not to worry. By the end of the day the tail will be straight again.

—Diane Porter

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