{"id":143013,"date":"2025-04-21T02:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=143013"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:16:19","slug":"adult-carolina-chickadee-with-a-spider-for-their-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/04\/21\/adult-carolina-chickadee-with-a-spider-for-their-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Carolina Chickadee With A Spider For Their Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple image of a wet adult Carolina Chickadee with a spider for their young, taken two days ago, is what I\u2019m sharing this morning.<\/p>\n

\"CarolinaCarolina Chickadee with a spider for their young<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know when the Carolina Chickadee eggs hatched or how many chicks are in the nest box, but I do know the adults are flying in with food for them constantly.<\/p>\n

This adult chickadee flew in after a rainstorm with a spider for their chicks and paused for a few seconds on a pear tree branch before heading into the nest box. The bird wasn\u2019t drenched but was clearly wet, its feathers looking damp from the rain.<\/p>\n

I’m so excited that soon I might be able to photograph Carolina Chickadee<\/span><\/a> chicks fledging from their nest, maybe even hopping around in the grass or learning how to eat seeds from the feeder. I can barely wait.<\/p>\n

But the timing has to be right, as always with chicks fledging from the nest. Fingers crossed I\u2019m in the right place at the right time, and that the little fluffballs don\u2019t launch while I\u2019m inside making coffee or out in the field.<\/p>\n

Life is <\/em>good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Check here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Carolina Chickadee photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A simple image of a wet adult Carolina Chickadee with a spider for their young, taken two days ago, is what I\u2019m sharing this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13950,27,13989,13951],"tags":[4897,13991,6273,6274,4068,1130,13931,6583,15769,13990,4106,3901,165,15824,4427,1824,13966,4193],"class_list":["post-143013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arkansas","category-avian","category-carolina-chickadees","category-sebastian-county","tag-branch","tag-carolina-chickadee","tag-chickadee","tag-chickadees","tag-chicks","tag-food","tag-garden","tag-leaves","tag-pear-tree","tag-poecile-carolinensis","tag-prey","tag-spider","tag-spring","tag-suburban","tag-tree","tag-wet","tag-yard","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/carolina-chickadee-with-spider-mia-mcpherson-7228.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-BcF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143199,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/04\/29\/carolina-chickadee-chicks-have-fledged\/","url_meta":{"origin":143013,"position":0},"title":"Carolina Chickadee Chicks Have Fledged!","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"April 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday the Carolina Chickadee chicks that were in the nest box on the pear tree fledged, and the first one I photographed was near the deck.","rel":"","context":"In "Arkansas"","block_context":{"text":"Arkansas","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/arkansas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Carolina Chickadee chick in a flower bed, Sebastian County, Arkansas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/carolina-chickadee-chick-mia-mcpherson-9958.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/carolina-chickadee-chick-mia-mcpherson-9958.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/carolina-chickadee-chick-mia-mcpherson-9958.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/carolina-chickadee-chick-mia-mcpherson-9958.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":113791,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/06\/15\/carolina-chickadee-in-pre-lift-off-pose\/","url_meta":{"origin":143013,"position":1},"title":"Carolina Chickadee In Pre-lift Off Pose","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I've photographed plenty of Black-capped Chickadees out west but it was about time to add a Carolina Chickadee gallery to my website. 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