VGSR is
venturing into new terrain with this awesome birdhouse donated by a generous supporter. It’s the first time, we can literally say – “We’ve
gone to the birds!”
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| 2 story Chickadee Mansion |
This lovely
2 Story
Chickadee Mansion by Bird Condos Room-N-Board of
Mohawk, NY will be available during the upcoming Silent Auction. It measures 15" high, 11" wide and
10" deep. Its panels are hinged to
open for cleaning the inside. This is a
great opportunity for you to provide a nest box/home for the chickadees that we
are sure you see, daily, in your yard.
Check out these fun facts about chickadees:
- Chickadees are found across much of North America. The more common species include the Black-capped, Carolina and Mountain Chickadees.
- There are seven species of chickadee in the world. Chickadees, along with titmice, belong to the family Paridae. This family of songbirds also includes birds known as tits.
- These little birds are known as “chickadees” because of their alarm call. Chickadees are identified easily by their namesake call “chick-a-dee.” This type of name is onomatopoetic — the word is the sound that it describes.
- The more “dee” notes at the end of a chickadee call indicate increasing levels of agitation. For instance, a chickadee may end their call with just one “dee” when a known person fills a favorite bird feeder. An owl roosting near the feeding station would warrant many more “dee” notes.
- In early summer, Mountain Chickadees are able to find and use seeds they hid during the previous autumn.
- Chestnut-backed and Black-capped chickadees keep an eye on the food-finding success of other individuals, if one bird is doing especially well; they adapt their behavior, whereas unproductive behavior is not copied.
- Have you noticed how ravenously the birds eat at your bird feeders, especially first thing in the morning and just before dusk? Chickadees can gain as much as 10 percent of their body weight each day and lose it all again during a cold winter night.
- Chickadees are tough little birds that does not migrate. During cold weather Chickadees may need twenty times more food than they do in summer.
- Chickadees weigh, on average, less than one-half of an ounce.
Very interesting...and I will reconsider my opinion of birds in general!!! Lovely condo. Maybe if I bought them a house, it would keep my dog from trying to jump into the Magnolia to check out the nests.
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