Day 16.036: Chickadee in a pine tree

Our attention was drawn to this tree by the chickadees calling from inside it. The number of  'dee's in their call is an indication of the threat level (at least when it's more than three or four) and we got seven as we passed - a mild threat maybe increased when I stopped to take a photo - partly because of the impressive crop of pine cones near the top of the tree.

We always joke that a chickadee in a pine tree is the most Maine thing there is - the state bird in the state tree - as featured on the default-design license plates. It's also a thing that happens quite regularly in real life.