A week later and the chickadees are still visiting the skull several times a day. (See my May 3 post) I have now washed all my throw rugs and bedding to produce a continuing supply of dryer lint. I have also managed to catch a few decent photos of them.
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| This is the smaller of the two, which I take to be the female. They sit on the forehead of the skull and look around, cheeping nervously for quite some time before they finally go into the skull. |
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| And so, finally deciding it was safe, they enter the skull. You can tell this is the larger of the two in this photo. |
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| Most of the time, after a few seconds, they stick their head out again to be sure everything is ok. |
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| Then they go back in, grab a mouthful of lint and take off. |
Obviously it is not just nest building materials they find inside the skull, sometimes I can hear them pecking so I assume there are some small insects in there also. Yesterday, while one was perched on the forehead and the other perched on the railing, and I perched at my computer, I played some chickadee song from a birding sight. They were quite interested and it seemed they did try to respond. But I suspect I am just imagining that.
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