This is an
original oil painting by Ruth Housley. It is a Black-Capped Chickadee and in a cherry tree.
The black cap separates this species from the more northern brown-headed chickadee. The narrow white feathers edges which give the folded wing a finely striated look and the white tipped lower throat feathers which effect a gradual transition from the black of the throat to the white of the breast are the only plumage differences between it and the Carolina chickadee. In the field the difference in voice is the best means of identification.
Proverbs 27:8 "As a bird wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place."