The congenial chickadee, certainly one of Minnesota's mainstay birds during the winter and a splendid way to start off the new year on iNaturalist. This bird has been one of my personal favorites since childhood. As evidence of this long-standing admiration, around thirty years ago, as a college student, I made a bookmark, which I still have and use, from a piece of birchbark, adding a simple ink drawing of a chickadee and this tiny, two-line poem by Henry David Thoreau (with his spelling).
The chicadee
Hops near to me.
Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965)
Black-capped Chickadee
Apple Valley, Minnesota
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This is indeed a great way to start the new year. All the best!
Thanks, Denis. Best to you as well!
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