Date: 09/24/2022

Number: 1

After a chilly night of 47 degrees and 35 miles an hour winds observed a female or a juvenile “protecting” the hummingbird feeder from chickadee’s attempts to drink sugar water.

It was hovering and flying in rocking patterns side to side about 18’’ from the chickadee- scaring them away from the feeder at their each attempt

This is the first summer when I observed chickadees figuring out how to drink from the hummingbird feeder with the bee-guards: they slightly tip the access port due to their weight and drink syrupy water seeping under the bee guard

I have chickadees around for many years- this is a first for me to see them using hummingbird feeder this summer- we were in a drought situation, but we keep a bird bath with fresh water daily.
They went for sugar? Or just preferred the feeder syrup?

Newport, RI

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -71.3

Observed by: L
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