The Chickadee

You may wonder why this blog is called The Chickadee Tweet - if you're not wondering, you may want to logoff and go find something more interesting to do.

For those of you still reading, give some thought to the characteristics of the Chickadee, which happens to be my favourite flying creature. According to Wikipedia, the ever helpful online encyclopedia, the chickadee is "a small, common songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae." (Being the immature person that I am, I had to click further to read more about "tits"...there are a species of birds called "tits!" Then I had to google where the origin of tits comes from, as a nickname for women's breasts - I found nothing, but honestly only searched for several minutes)

Where was I? Oh yes! Chickadees! The black-capped chickadee is small, fluffy, and in my opinion, the cutest bird around. They're very friendly, and will often come and peck away at some seed in your hand. Their song is beautiful, and sounds exactly like their name (chickadee-dee-dee-dee-dee).

When thinking about a proper name for both my blog and my doula services, I couldn't think of anything I liked better than chickadee. To me, its name conveys a sense of fun; its song is a lighthearted melody that you can hear even in the dead of winter. And so, The Chickadee Tweet was born. And soon, as I work through my doula training, I will birth my second project - Ottawa's Chickadee Birthing Services. I'm hoping for a natural birth, but am open to interventions from financial advisors, business planners, and banks. Also, friends and family can donate money to me if they wish (with 0% interest, and 75 years to pay back the loan....what? Come on...by then they will have discovered the fountain of youth!)

I don't know a song about chickadees specifically, although I do really like bopping around to Rockin' Robin (but for the record, chickadees are definitely better than robins):

He rocks in the tree tops all day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song
All the little birdies on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet

Rockin' robin, tweet tweet tweet
Rockin' robin' tweet tweetly-tweet
Blow rockin' robin
'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight

Every little swallow, every chick-a-dee
Every little bird in the tall oak tree
The wise old owl, the big black crow
Flappin' their wings singing go bird go

Rockin' robin, tweet tweet tweet
Rockin' robin' tweet tweetly-tweet
Blow rockin' robin
'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight
Yeah yeah

Pretty little raven at the bird-band stand
Told them how to do the bob and it was grand
They started going steady and bless my soul
He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriol

He rocks in the tree tops all day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song
All the little birdies on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet

Rockin' robin, tweet tweet tweet
Rockin' robin' tweet tweetly-tweet
Blow rockin' robin
'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight

Pretty little raven at the bird-band stand
Told them how to do the bop and it was grand
They started going steady and bless my soul
He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriol

He rocks in the tree tops all day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song
All the little birdies on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet

Rockin' robin, tweet tweet tweet
Rockin' robin' tweet tweetly-tweet
Blow rockin' robin
'Cause we're really gonna rock tonight