Birds don’t really spit like we do and whatever sound they make when doing a bird version of spitting certainly wouldn’t be “ptooey.” Whatever the sound though, this Black-capped Chickadee didn’t seem to want the piece of shell it picked off the black sunflower seed it was eating and used its tongue to eject it from its beak. I noticed this behavior over and over as we watched them at Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota yesterday.