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Mendon Ponds

Feeding Chickadees by Hand and Head!

January 17, 2010

Our local park here in Rochester, NY (Mendon Ponds Park) has a songbird trail where chickadees, titmice, and even nuthatches gather to eat from the hands of chubby-palmed children and wistful adults.

We visited Saturday in order to get the family outdoors on the first sunny day we’d had in a long time. Why stop at the hand? thought my husband, and offered his balding pate as a serving platter of black oil sunflower seeds.

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Hooded Warbler, Scarlet Tanager @ Mendon Ponds, NY

May 14, 2009

         

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