Tufted Titmouse at Backyard Feeder is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on May 24th, 2017.
Tufted Titmouse at Backyard Feeder
A Tufted Titmouse has just about everything you could ask for in a backyard bird. Petite and strikingly elegant, it’s as perky as a chickadee. In... more
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Tufted Titmouse at Backyard Feeder
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A Tufted Titmouse has just about everything you could ask for in a backyard bird. Petite and strikingly elegant, it’s as perky as a chickadee. In fact, it’s a cousin to the chickadee. And as it comes boldly to your seed or suet feeders, the Tufted Titmouse will even hang upside down like an acrobat. So what’s in that peculiar name, “titmouse”? The name descends from two ancient Anglo-Saxon root words — “tit,” from a word meaning something small. And “mouse,” from a word applied to any small bird, as well as that little rodent.
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May 24th, 2017
