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My little chickadee: I know what he likes me for. But is it love?

I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it.

I’ve tried for years to make friends with a wild bird, and I’m willing to bribe. The crows have been unimpressed. So when I heard that various songbirds might accept a mealworm, properly flung from a polite distance, I bought a tub of them. 

Song sparrows and juncos were likely candidates, but I had my sights set on our chickadees, Marge and

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