Time for your closeup Mr. Chickadee...

Please view this image full screen to see the snow that has attached itself to the

feather tips of this tiny Chickadee... hanging onto a twig during a snowy blowy day...

Excellent detail on this chickadee.

As you may already know... chickadees land for a nervous moment and then they are off.. I was happy to get this image....  thank you for your comment!

Such a beautiful capture! The snow adds so much to the image. You were fortunate to get this well detailed capture. I've read that the Black Capped variety have the ability to go into nightly hypothermia which helps them conserve large amounts of energy. They can lower their body temperature 12-15 degrees below their daytime temp. of 108 F. An article where I found this information said that the lower the outside temperature, the more energy the bird conserves. How remarkable is that??? In Alaska, they stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18 hour nights. Another study learned that they consume up to 60% of their body weight each day, and then go into Hypothermia to reduce their metabolism which allows them to use stored body fat for energy to shiver all night long to keep themselves warm. They weighed birds in the morning and found they virtually had no body fat, but the same birds weighed in the afternoon of the same day were bulging with fat. They truly are amazing little birds!!!  Beautiful capture Frederick.