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up a sunflower seed and are away with it as if they have happily broken some senseless rule.

The Black-capped Chickadee is a bit slower in movement and much more tame. I also think they are bit “chunkier,” more rounded and a bit fatter looking.

When I am in Blackcapped Chickadee country — Vermont, for instance — and see and hear this species on a regular basis I think, “Well now, I can surely tell the two apart. This will not be a problem for me when I return to Virginia.”

It is never that simple, and my resolve to know the difference between the two birds dissolves when I get back to Flint Hill. So far, I have not seen a Black-capped Chickadee at our feeder. Once or twice I have stopped to listen to the cheery and optimistic calls of one of these little birds. “Was that chick-adee-dee lower pitched? Was it buzzier in sound?”

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