So my daughter’s boyfriend stayed with us for a year and during that time he patiently trained the chickadees to take sunflower seeds from his hand. He was so good at it that we got mobbed by them when we went outside so we fed them as well.

When I tried to take photos of them eating from my hand they would often land on my phone camera which got me thinking. I remembered a post from someone else who had parrots land on a bird guide that was open to their picture so I thought I would try the same thing.

So I opened a guide book (Stokes Guide to Birds Western Region) and it didn’t take long for one to land. I took 3 pics to get one with the same angle as the book and posted it to my Tumblr account and it now has about 140,000 views.