http://stephenfell.net/tags/birds/ Recent content in Birds on Stephen Fell Hugo en-us Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://stephenfell.net/posts/birds/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://stephenfell.net/posts/birds/ <p>Listening to and seeing birds offers proven mental health benefits, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36229489/">reducing anxiety, stress, and paranoia</a> while enhancing mood.</p> <p>In early February, I put up a bird feeder that I got for my birthday - it’s one of those ones that has a camera in it so you can login and watch the birds dig through the seeds, finding the ones they like best. Every day since, there has been a feeding frenzy of redpolls, red breasted nuthatches, chickadees, Steller’s jays, European starlings, magpies and the occasional squirrel.</p> http://stephenfell.net/posts/chickadee-dee-dee/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://stephenfell.net/posts/chickadee-dee-dee/ <p>The other day I put up the bird feeder that my wife had given me for my birthday last month. It’s one of those feeders with a camera so you can see the birds up close.</p> <p>Within 2 hours, we had a squirrel and shortly after that, chickadees, nuthatches and redpolls. I’m getting more than a hundred pings each day with all the hungry birds that come to feed.</p> <p>Here’s a drawing of one of my visitors, a chickadee who came to rest on one of the lower branches of our oak tree. I drew this on a sticky note to save time and show that you can draw with any kind of supplies that you might have lying around, even when you’re taking a short break at work :-)</p>