Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
During our summer camping birding trip I managed to capture a mountain chickadee and a chestnut-backed chickadee. The difference between each can be clearly seen.
Mountain Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Friday, January 14, 2011
cold snap brings in variety
With temps hovering at -24 to -26 for the last four days we have had non-stop guests at the seed feeder. The black-capped chickadees come either singly, in twos and threes and once in a while about ten at a time. The bonus with the cold temps is we are getting a couple of boreal chickadee at the feeder, though they tend to come real early and again late when the light is waning making a clear shot difficult.
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Do you have any house finches? Most of my feeder action is with house finches. I see the odd boreal and the RB nuthatch is a regular. I think quite a few RB nuthatches are in the area. The mountain chickadees are a little messy looking compared to the neat BC chickadees.
It looks like where you live is even colder than my part of Alaska. We are having overnight lows of -15 to -20f. The daytime temps are about 10 degrees warmer.
The Mountain Chickadees I used to see in Arizona had bold white eyebrows. That field mark does not really show in your photo.
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