"Come up and see me sometime." "Mmm, I will, my little chickadee." So went the exchange between W.C. Fields and Mae West at the end of the 1940 movie classic My Little Chickadee. The latter line was ...

JOSEPH – My bird of the month is the friendly little chickadee. outnumbers the black-capped about five to one. That is why I submitted this photo of a mountain chickadee at our sunflower seed feeder.

While parrots live so long that they end up being an inheritance, ordinary backyard birds have pretty short lives. The ubiquitous chickadee’s life span is apparently extraordinary when it gets into ...

If you’d like to see some new-to-you birds in Michigan this fall, listen for the sound of one of our most common birds: The Black-capped Chickadee. The chickadee’s namesake “chickadee-dee-dee” call is ...

Darker days and chilly temperatures have you feeling gloomy? Layer up and beat the winter blues by immersing yourself in all that Cleveland has to offer—from ice skating to snow tubing and more, there ...

Each morning, after making coffee, my wife and I fill the distinctive, barn-red bird feeder that hangs down between our back deck and Illinois Mountain. As we fill the feeder, we whistle to signal to ...