Feeding Chickadees at Mer Blue, near Ottawa...

YOU HAVE TO START THEM YOUNG

This is my four-year old grandson, Malcolm, hand-feeding Chickadees at Mer Blue, near Ottawa with his sisters, on the first day of 2017.   If there is one bird that makes a Canadian winter bearable, it is the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapilla).

small black and white bird

in this winter coldly absurd

your call's sweetly heard
                                                                                        - Limerick for a grandson

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Barry Wallace