We were fortunate this past week to find a couple of chickadees checking out a stump along the trail. Their apparent interest in evaluating this stick of wood, inside and out, caused them to ignore my nearby presence.
A chickadee visit
john's f-stop
Photography and image manipulations by john h. gregory
john's f-stop 
This reminded of the time we were skiing on the Wilderness Trail in WMNF and I fell, and before I could get up several chickadees landed on me. ( Maybe it was only one but it was at least one!)
They are showing up everywhere right now – got another picture today