Because every good day deserves a chickadee. Soft feathered weightlessness, rasp of air on your hands. Black-capped Chickadee waiting ...

First, a confession: I adore Black-capped Chickadees . I have even frozen my fingers feeding them — and while I don't like the burn of f...

Black-capped chickadee. All photos © Shelley Banks I love this shot — the chickadee's crisp folded wings, its tiny claws clutch...

Red-breasted nuthatch © SB St. Peter's Abbey, Muenster, Saskatchewan:  Chickadees and nuthatches fly at me as soon as I put down ...