This is a Carolina Chickadee. I have photographed this species once before. In fact, it may have been about this time last year. We saw a few of them after the snow fall this week.
You may wonder what they are doing here in this cold weather. They do not migrate, but this is about as far north as they are found.
This is an interesting fact is from wikipedia:
Carolina chickadees are able to lower their body temperatures to induce an intentional state of hypothermia called torpor. They do this to conserve energy during extremely cold winters. In extremely cold weather conditions they look for cavities where they can hide in and spend up to fifteen hours at a time in torpor; during this time they are awake but unresponsive; they should not be picked up and handled at this time, as the stress of being held may cause their death.
I need this skill. When we observed them, they were very active and not in torpor.
Cool bird.
~ Rick
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