Tufted Titmouse: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, December 2025 — I aways wonder if our feeder birds actually get any energy benefit from the sunflower seeds we put out for them. They spend, it seems, a lot of energy opening each seed one at a time to get the kernel out. Still, I figure they must know what is best for them, and they keep taking sunflower seeds. Of course they could just be sunflower addicts. That would not be good and I would not feel good about enabling them. I bet someone has studied this. I should look it up. The Tufted Titmice and Chickadees are the most obvious about this…coming repeatedly to the feeder to take a single seed and fly off to a perch to dissect it. Sony a6700. Sigma 16-300 at 450mm equivalent field of view. Program with birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.