All About the Little Ones Today
All About the Little Ones Today, the Chickadee, one of the smaller species of song birds. So tiny but fast, I have been trying to get a photo of this little one in motion for a long time.
I finally did it today, I had to turn the shutter speed up to 1/8000 of a Second to attempt to stop its wings in motion. There is still a little motion blur, but now I know how fast the shutter has to open to even get close to slowing down these little ones.
On cold winter nights, these birds can reduce their body temperature by as much as 12°C (from their normal temperature of about 42°C) to conserve energy. Such a capacity for torpor is not very common in birds.
They can reach speeds up to 12 miles an hour,
For what is life, it is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
All About the Little Ones Today
Have a Great Weekend
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Thank you very much 🙂
Wonderful pictures, thanks 🙂
You are very welcome, thank you. 🙂
Beautiful photographs. We have these little guys in our garden coming to the sunflower seed feeder. I love having them around.
Yes, they are so gorgeous. Thank you.🙂
Love these photos! Very neat!
Thank you very much. 🙂
Good write up
Beautiful , keep it up 🙂
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Beautifully presented.
The birds look lovely!
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Awesome pictures 😍 The cutest bird!
Thank you 🙂
I love Chickadees – such cute little birds and their cheerful colors and plump little shape always bring a smile to my face. I had no idea they were that fast – great how you got the wing movement here Sandra.
Thank you Linda, one of them landed on my camera the other day. I might beable to get them to eat out of my hand with practice.
That’s exciting Sandra. I always watch the Jocelyn Anderson videos to see her morning ritual of feeding the birds at Kensington Park. It is mostly Chickadees, Tufted Titmice and Woodpeckers. I would love to have that happen. She has some videos on her website showing how to train the birds to come to your hand, but you won’t need it if it landed on your camera – how cool is that!
Very beautiful! Birds are the perfect alarm clocks!
Yes they are, 🙂 thank you
Those birds in flight are wonderfull
Thank you Lisa 🙂
Those birds in flight are amazing..
Oh, that’s lovely!🥰🐥
Thank you 🙂
Absolutely Amazing Pictures. I really like the last one. It’s beautiful!
Thank you so much. 🙂
Love those little birds. So much fun to watch…
Yes, I enjoy feeding them, adds so much enjoyment to the winter months.🙂
Now these are some cool shots. You even got the feathers on the one Very good. In February the Chickadees will come to you for hand feeding in our parks. This is way cool
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Thank you very much Mr Ohh, these are very friendly here also. One landed on my camera the other day.🙂
Fantastic shots! These and titmice are definitely some of my favorite song birds. Unbelievable how fast that shutter speed had to be. It definitely did the trick though.
Thank you very much. 🙂☃️
Even now when I can no longer keep my many bird feeders supplied, my little chickadees still continue to do their thing outside my windows. Nice post, Sandra
Thank you Don, yes these Chickadees here are not to afraid, one landed on my camera the other day. 🙂 I like that.
You did a very good job at photographing this little bird. And I know, it is not easy at all to get such a beautiful capture, needs a lot of patience.
Thank you Greta, yes, lots of patience, I probably took 30 photos that did not turn out because they are so quick. 🙂
I love these birds, they always sound like they are laughing…
Thank you Sandra. Have a great day.
Yes they do, 🙂 thank you Francine, have a great weekend. 🙂
Very impressive photography with these little guys.
Thank you very much, it took a lot of shots to just get a couple of good ones, they are so fast. 🙂
Lovely. One of my favorite birds from childhood. 😆
Mine also, thank you. 🙂
Thanks. I am planning on a great weekend! I love those little guys, and glad you stopped one “”in its tracks,”so to speak.🤗
Thank you Marland, yes, they are hard to photograph. 🙂
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Nice one!
Have a great weekend!
You to Nuno.🙂
Such intricate shots of the bird and with wings fluttering. Good share with thanks.
Thank you very much. 🙂
Most welcome😃
I didn’t actually know what a chickadee was. Lovely pictures and it always seems a miracle that tiny birds survive winter weathers of all sorts.
I know, they are amazing. Thank you.
SO cute!
Thank you. 🙂
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Lovely share Thank you, have a lovely weekend 😊
You to, thank you. 🙂
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🙂 thank you.
Lovely pictures. Chickadees are my favorite bird: tiny but tough enough to survive the harsh winters of the north, quick, brave and smart. There was one that used to watch for when I came out to fill the feeder with its favorite, black oil sunflower seeds. It would actually sit on a branch so close to my head, I could have brushed it if I looked upwards. It seemed to know that I had no intent to hurt it, however: as soon as I was done putting the feeder back on its pole, it would fly down and start eating while I was still standing within inches of it. I learned later that at one Zen monastery, the monks practice a kind of meditation by holding sunflower seeds in their outstretched hands and wait for the local chickadees to fly down and eat from their palms. That the chickadee looks like an East Asian ink brush painting with its gray and black coloring makes it all the more Zen-like.
What a wonderful story, these chickadees do the same thing..one actually landed on my camera a couple days ago. 🙂
The second picture is realy marvelous.
Thank you very much. 🙂
Your pictures are so clear. One can see every feather.
Thank you very much Jo..🙂
They are so cute 🐦
They are, 🙂 thank you.
Fast click of a brilliant display!
Thank you very much George.
Very cool the way you caught the wings in mid-flight like that.
Thank you Herb, they are so fast. 🙂