| When trees die, the Crouches leave them standing so that birds such as flickers and chickadees can feed on the insects that invade the dead wood. |
| House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it. |
| Likewise, the chestnut-backed chickadees hide in the branches of the scrub oak awaiting an opportunity for a quick breakfast. |
| Of course, we still have our year-round chickadees, titmice, cardinals, woodpeckers, mourning doves and song sparrows. |
| I discovered that the chickadees had fledged from the bluebird box and bluebirds had started a nest with one egg already laid. |
| Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them. |
