A whole lot o’ cuteness going on…

The big news in Estabrook Park this morning is that there are indeed goslings on the pond: four, little, yellow puffballs.

Here’s a closer look.

Meanwhile, down by the river, this black-capped chickadee was making preparations for the same kind of action.

Here it is coming out of the cavity with a beak full of wood chips. There were two about, and I read that “the pair … excavates the hole together,” but the “sexes look alike,” so I can’t tell you which one this is.

Back up on the bluff, I found another white-breasted nuthatch holding a morsel in its beak, and this one was clearly calling while facing one way …

and then another. I read that the male “feeds her morsels of food,” and perhaps that is what this one was hoping to do.

Finally, a chipmunk was out and looking cute as ever, but which do you think is cuter? Tale down, and toes curled against chest, or …

tail up and curled around the toes?