Playing with my camera in the backyard this afternoon luring birds to a seed-covered log, I got the header-photo above of a Red-breasted Nuthatch and some easy pictures of a "frozen" Black-capped Chickadee in the same posture we used to see at the feeders in the woods on the DeWitt property when the Cooper's Hawk came by.
My chickadees typically drop down, grab a seed, and fly off in seconds. This one stayed on the log for almost three minutes (!) eating nothing, barely moving except to look around. The Red-shouldered Hawks have been screaming around all day, but there was no sign of them when this bird froze. (And we also have a Cooper's Hawk.) Who knows.
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