Size
Length 5 - 6 inches, wingspan 6 - 8 inches
Weight
9 - 14 grams, 0.33 - 0.49 ounces
Habitat
Deciduous and mixed forests, open woodlands, suburban gardens, especially in winter
Nest
Usually makes its own nest in a rotting stump or tree, made of vegetation, feathers, moss, hair
Eggs
6 - 8 white eggs speckled with brown, incubation 11 - 13, fledge in 14 - 18 days
Food
A wide variety of insects berries and seeds. Happily feeds from feeders year round and especially in winter. Loves black oil seed sunflower
Voice
The best known call "chick-a-dee-dee" from whence it gets it's name, and the soothing whistled call ?fee-bee-bee"
Characteristics
Feeder foods: Sunflower seeds, Suet
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