Chirps and Cheeps

What a treat today brought! I've been preparing my bird friends to eat from my hand by leaving a gardener's glove of seed out on our deck railing.  It's close to the feeders and eventually, birds began to accept that purple glove as a regular deck accent and pick at the seeds in its palm. (This was all my son, Tom's idea.)

So - the next step was to WEAR the glove and try enticing the birds to eat from my hand with the glove on. But today, impatient as I am, I just went ahead and skipped that step, anxious to see if they would comply!  Sure enough!  A little male, red-breasted nuthatch obliged - and not only once, but he came back several times! I expected a chickadee to be first.

In between his visits, I set up my camera on a tripod and got some mediocre shots to prove I wasn't dreaming!  How cool!!!