[EBB Sightings] Our Chickadee Family

Our Chickadee family paid a visit to our Walnut Creek patio this morning, 
according to my wife Rosita.  She said that a total of 3 chicks came, as 
well as both parents.  While one parent was teaching some of the chicks how 
to wash behind their ears in the bird bath, the other was busily making 
trips from the seed feeder to the hungry chicks.

Rosita said the one with the lump behind its head was here.  The lump is 
noticably smaller.  John Harris, of Oakland, thinks it might be a botfly 
larva which has burrowed under the skin, where it will live before crawling 
out and forming a pupa.  This chick did take a drink out of one of the 
hummingbird feeder ant traps.

Hugh B. Harvey