photo credit: Susan Hughes (B&B reader)Susan Hughes of Brighton, Michigan, sprinkled seeds and peanuts on a stump in her yard. She watched this tufted titmouse struggle to pick up a peanut and then drop it. What do you think this bird is thinking? Caption this funny photo in a comment below. Look for one of our favorite suggestions in the next issue of Birds & Blooms magazine.
Kathy says
“I need a bigger beak!”
Jan Fulmer says
Ah! Nuts!
Rosemary Wilson says
Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
Lisa Rodgers says
Oops! I’ve done it again!
Kelly Berry says
Aw, nuts!
Deborah Curtis says
You should win this… that cracked me up! Perfect. Good luck.
Karen Laska says
Come to Papa!
Evelyn says
Slippery little sucker!
Deborah Curtis says
Murphy`s law! I really wanted that nut too!
Alan Maxwell says
I am NOT a nutcracker! Do I LOOK like a nutcracker?
Carolyn Whipple says
Wha what?!? It must be my lucky day! It’s raining peanuts!
Pat Werner says
This is going to be like kissing the Blarney Stone!
Bev Ferguson says
Never mind! I’m on a diet anyhow!
Bev Ferguson says
Never mind! I’m on a diet anyhow!
Debbie Blackwell says
Awe come on….I’m loosing my nuts!
Kristin Baldwin says
Hmm…guess it’ll end up being peanut butter when it lands!
Mazie Beck says
This is the easy way to crack open a peanut- soon the yummy goodness is mine.
Charles D Lucas says
Oops! Down into the great abyss!
Veronika Guttenberger says
Like Sisyphus, I feel condemned to repeat forever this meaningless task of retrieving a peanut only to see it fall down again. I am now conscious of my absurd existence.
Luther Hintz says
Oh nuts!! Not again???
Barbara says
“Ahhh Nuts!!!”
Jerome Parson says
Nooooo. That thing is going to fall all the way to China…
But the nut is thinking “Ha!!
I’m the one that got away.”
Megan Blackwell says
To peanut or not to peanut, that is the question.
Sandra J Haramut says
Here I come Mr Nut
Mike Currin says
I can’t eat this, I have nut allergies. P-tooey!
John Stembel says
“I should have gone to McDonald`s!”
Ken Johnson says
Oh nuts! The squirrel is going to get this one!
Ken Johnson says
Oh nuts! The squirrel is going to get this one!
NANCY HARMON says
Another one bites the dust.
Lou Score says
NOOOOooooooooooooo !
Tammy Merrill says
“I should have kept my mouth shut!”
Kristina clevinger says
I didn’t want that nut anyway!
Catherine A Hamilton says
Another one bites the dust!
Rosalie Abshier says
NOOO!!!
Nancy White says
Nuts!!! I can’t believe that one got away! The squirrels will thank me I’m sure!
Janet kirchner says
Now I know how Scratch feels!!
Renee Velzka says
Aaaaagh!!!!!
Michael Beck says
I wish I was an elephant.
Beth James says
Crap, I can’t hold on to anything anymore!!!!
Denise Foerster says
“Can’t believe I did it again”
Gary Isenhour says
Where do you think your going?
Gary Isenhour says
Dang, that was the last one!
Patricia Jones says
Well…I’ve seen the big guys do it this way. Jus hope I can find it!
Kelly says
Good one! That’s how some large birds crack open nuts by dropping them.
Marie Jensen says
Gone but not forgotten
Jean Dooley says
Well snap! now I know how Scrat felt in Ice Age
Linda Lovins says
You’ve got to be kidding me!
Kelly Berry says
I need to get a grip!
Sherry says
So close and yet so far away!
parm pocs says
OH, NUTS!!!!!
Barbara Schleicher says
Hmm. Now what am I going to do?
Sharon H Ibarra says
neither here nor there!
Sharon H Ibarra says
shoot! I keep dropping things!
Patti Glover says
Look out below!!!
Barbara Schleicher says
Hmm. Now what am I going to do?
Ashley Kowalk says
Ohhh, nuts!!!
Michelle Braunstein says
Oh dear I dropped it again. I need a bigger beak or a smaller peanut.
Judy Rice says
UHHH, OH…
Julia Lowe says
Oh no, I’ve dropped my lunch and that’s all I had to eat.
Renee Grace says
I knew I should have brought my repelling equipment!
Renee Grace says
I could really use a set of arms right about now.
Jody Meizelis says
Ohhh, nuts! There goes my lunch. And I worked sooo hard to get it!!
Jody Meizelis says
Awww, nuts! There goes my lunch. And I worked sooo hard to get it!!
Tessa Tipton says
“I’ll never let go Jack! I’ll never let go…”
Scott Heller says
Watchout Ant
Mildred Hogue says
I wonder if I can reach it from here.
Mary Hollars says
There goes dessert! Better there than on my hips.
Timothy Thomforde says
Bombs away!!
Timothy Thomforde says
Caution! Slippery when wet
Marilyn Prusa says
Now I know what Mom meant when she said, “Never chirp with a mouth full”
Marilyn Prusa says
correction to previous comment
Now I know what Mom meant when she said; “NEVER CHIRP WITH A BEAK FULL”
Elda Myers says
I tweeted and LOST the nut!! So much for Twitter…..
Joann says
Nuts!
Debbie West says
“It was such a young,nice, polite peanut why did it have to go”
Mona Estes says
I thought this was a peanut, not a jumping bean!
Meredith Braughler says
What goes down must come up, right? Or was that the other way around?
Jackie Francisco says
Look out below!
carole says
If a peanut is dropped from a height of a tree stump how long will it take to reach the ground?
Martha Olver says
Drat! Now how do I get down there?
Esther Alexander says
I’m going in!!
Mark says
Now that’s just Not right!
Norma Walker says
Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t!
Ruthie lee says
Come to me my pretty!
TD says
When will I learn that the secret to success is being “beak ready” when opportunity knocks?
Bernie says
Not too big for me, where there is a will where is a way! Yay!!!!