Winter Bird Feeding Station With Cardinal And Chickadees Coloring Page

A wooden feeder hangs from a snowy branch with a cardinal perched on the rim and two chickadees waiting on the twigs nearby, one upside down in the way chickadees actually feed. Seed is scattered on the snow below and a suet block hangs to one side. The birds are drawn large with clean outlines, making this an approachable page for children of about five upward and a good one for a classroom nature lesson.

This page more or less colors itself if you keep the birds accurate. The male cardinal is a strong scarlet all over with a black mask around the beak, and the chickadees are simple, a black cap and bib, white cheeks and a soft gray back. Getting those right and leaving the snow almost bare will make the cardinal blaze off the page.

Both of these birds stay put all winter rather than migrating. The chickadee manages it with a remarkable trick: it caches thousands of seeds in separate hiding places through autumn and remembers where a great many of them are, months later.