One look at the photo, and I instantly understood both the observer's confusion and the mystery bird's identity. It turned out to be a black-capped chickadee with a condition known as “leucism” ...
They’re a fun item to offer to your backyard birds: Blue jays love the peanuts in the shell, and many other birds, from chickadees to woodpeckers to sparrows, enjoy pecking at shelled peanuts in ...