I was just outside in the courtyard at the hospital, sitting on a park bench, when I witnessed a hasty date between a pair of what I am guessing were Mountain Chickadees like the one pictured above. Well, the male looked like that, anyway. They were sitting side by side on a length of pipe.
In the space of about a minute, he mated with her like 6 times, until he knocked her off of the pipe. She looked at him for a second, ruffled her feathers, and then took off.
He sat there chirping for a minute, trying to get the attention of another female. She pecked around on the ground near him for a while, but ultimately did not succumb to his charms and flew away.
He repositioned himself in a nearby tree and kept trying, bless him. He's probably out there working it still.
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