Birds & Blooms’ Friday Fun Photo for August 31, 2012: Upside-Down Chickadee by Sheila Klintworth of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Sheila writes, “I got up early one morning to watch the birds coming in to our feeders and was able to get this goldfinch and chickadee together at the upside-down thistle feeder.”
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“Did you hear that?!”
Hanging out with you!
“You’re going about it all wrong!” said the Goldfinch to the Chickadee.
You OK down there?
I can eat my thistle right side up or upside down
theres more than one way to get the seed
don’t laugh, it is better this way !!!
Mama said there’ll be days like this
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO IMPRESS ME ITS NOT WORKING!!!!
Hey really. It taste better this way.
Maybe if I eat this way I will get a big brain instead of a big belly!
I told you not to eat the fermented berries! You can’t even stay upright on your perch.
You do what you gotta do!
You keep watch while I eat. Then we’ll trade places. Watch out for that dastardly squirrel.
There’s one in every crowd!
The one’s on top are already stale.
Rough night! Barely hanging on for breakfast!
I’m head over heels for this seed!
wow, when I think I have it figured out, they turn my world upside down
who turned my world upside down
Who turned my world upside down?
Hey, where’d ya go??
Dude! You need to try this! Those opossums got it going on!
If you eat upside down, the weight doesn’t go to your waistline.
Hey there, Chickadee. Does it taste better upside down?
NO, NO, you do it this way:)
Hey, this is just one of the ups and downs in life
The nuthatches eat this way so I thought I’d try it.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Topsy-Turvy
Boy, I think this stuff has fermented a little!!!
“Dude, you’re embarrassing me.”
Sometimes the world just seems upside down!
ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I get such headaches when I hang that way!
this dosn’t work with acid reflux.
How do you do that? I would get dizzy!
The food is good “down Under”.
Hey, was this food put out for this stranger? Hello there stranger, this is my yard.
Labor Day weekend just turns my world upside down.
Fred-Yellow Bird: “Hey, Ernie, do you see them coming yet?” Ernie-Grey Bird: “Nope Fred, don’t see a thing!”
I woke up on the wrong side of the nest and my whole world is upside down!
I just love these new anti-gravity bird feeders!
That guy hung upside down until the yellow drained off!
The goldfinch is saying–”Show-off!”
Okay, you keep watch while I pretend I am not here eating!
There is no right or wrong way to sample yor local treats, tweets!
Hey, Buddy! If you eat upside down, won’t you throw up???!!!
Wow, Got a little dizzy there!!!
See, chickadees can be goldfinches too.
Meet my new friend – he just flew in from Australia.
Eating with ease on my flying trapeze…. (as a jingle)
Harold! Have you been eating poppy seeds again??
did the directions say which end goes up?
He’s such a “hot-dog”
whoops….fell off the wagon again…
You eat funny
I’ll do anything for a free meal
“Excuuuuuse Me” If I think I am Batman, I am Batman!!!
So this is what they mean by ‘hanging out together!”
Maybe this way I’ll confuse that cat!
Someone put the seed in upside down!
They musta been drunk, they hung our feeder upside down.
How else am I supposed to get to it?
Now SHE’S talented. I’m gonna marry her someday.
Up on the wrong side of the bed again. Oh man I”ll be upside down all day now! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT BUB!
“Hey! Maybe I should try eating like that!”
…whachewlaffinat?? –ever seen a picture of you doin yoga???
Hey! It looks just the same upside down.
I was told that if I eat this way, the food won’t go to my hips!!!
Two bird standards….
Alright…who greased the perch?
Hey mate, I just flew in from down under,, little jet lag
It’s an upside-down world.
“EEEEK!!!! The squirell’s in his bird costume already.”
When it comes to food—–I can eat in any position. !
“Hang in there will get you way more than food, it gets you on FaceBook!”
hey!! is he trying to copy Me?
Marco…….Polo…
Hey…stop waxing the posts on this side of the feeder!!!!!!!!!
I’m keeping it even. Up, down, up, down. Makes me dizzy.
Don’t knock it until you try it!
too much to drink last night,eh?
“Hey Guys! That last gust of wind almost got me!”
I think your a litle cuckoo
Said the chickadee to the finch, “Turn this feeder right-side up…or else!”
Help….I’ve fallen and I can’t get upright!
My great great grandfather was a gold finch.
I knew I shouldn’t have drank and flew.
Wow, maybe I’ve been going about this all wrong!!!!
Hey, you go over and I’ll under and maybe we will meet in the middle.
“Inversion tables have never been better!!
It’s upside-down day! What- you didn’t hear about it?