This is Bird Note.

Whether mountain chickadees in the Rockies,

black caps in New England, or chestnut backs in the northwest,

chickadees are always worth watching at your feeder.

If you've laid out a fine feast of sunflower seeds,

you'll see them come in, quickly grab a seed, and fly away.

If you watch carefully, you'll see one land nearby, open the seed, and eat the juicy and nutritious

kernel within.

Now, keep watching that chickadee.

It may return immediately, but it's more likely to wait its turn. When a whole flock of chickadees

moves into your yard, it looks as if they form a living conveyor belt. One chickadee after another

flies to the feeder and then leaves with a seed. When they find a concentrated supply of food, such as a tray of sunflower seeds,

the birds are better off taking their turns than all coming in at once and squabbling over the seeds.

Nature seems to prefer order to chaos, and we have much to learn from the chickadees.

For bird note... have much to learn from the chickadees. For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann.