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Chickadee in Winter

Chickadee in Winter, 8x10in, watercolor on paper

Chickadee in Winter, 8x10in, watercolor on paper

These tiny darlings are regular visitors at our feeder this time of year. Did you know that these incredible birds have a hippocampus that grows in size each Fall/Winter to help them remember where they’ve stashed all their food? Talk about amazing…and as one researcher pointed out, perhaps we should be re-thinking our definition of “bird brain”!