#piip-show

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Chaffinch, male (the colorful one with the pink cheeks) and female (the plain one with the little brown hat). Never seen these guys before. He's so pretty! And that's not the lady in the middle shot, that's just a sparrow. But no one would blame you for confusing them.

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What do YOU want?

(This is my favorite screenshot I've captured, by far.)

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European Robin. The "gardener's friend", these birds will watch you work outside in hopes you'll dig up some tasty bugs for them. Also they have vision-based magnetoreception, which is basically a superpower.

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Nuthatch. These guys are little acrobats and seem to defy gravity: they don't care which way is up. If you spot a bird climbing a tree upside-down, it's probably a nuthatch.

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Dramatis Birdsonae: The Birds of Piip-Show

I've been binge-watching a reality show and started a tumblr dedicated to the cast. But it's not what you think: the show in question is Piip-Show, which is a lovely livestream from Norway of a bird feeder designed to look like a miniature coffee shop. So basically this is a guide to common songbirds of Norway, and also a squirrel. The squirrel is trouble.

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Tree Sparrow. (Not to be confused with the American Tree Sparrow). These guys are really messy eaters and throw the seeds everywhere!

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Great Tit. They will eat basically anything. And they're clever:

In England, Great Tits learned to break the foil caps of milk bottles delivered at the doorstep of homes to obtain the cream at the top. This behaviour, first noted in 1921, spread rapidly in the next two decades.