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Posted in chickadee on Oct 11th, 2012
I’ve seen Mountain Chickadees before, but it’s been a few years, so I was completely confused to see the masked avenger. I thought it might be some kind of nuthatch for a few minutes because of the beak. But then I realized that he looks just like the chickadees in my backyard except [...]
Posted in chickadee on Sep 30th, 2012
The chickadees are my favorite backyard bird because they answer my calls. They’re also even prettier now that I can photograph them with my new lens. The details are so amazing. Chickadees are as small as 4.7 inches long including their tail and the body is only 2.4 inches. The white [...]
Posted in chickadee on Oct 1st, 2011
We have a lot of Black-capped Chickadees in Salt Lake City. So many birds have left already with the fall migration, but the chickadees stay all winter. There are just enough trees in my neighborhood to support a ton of chickadees. And they are very brave. I can get within a foot of the chickadees [...]
There are a lot of chickadees in the United States. In my limited experience, the Black-Capped Chickadees are everywhere. Here is a very scruffy looking Black-Capped Chickadee from last spring. This is a Chestnut-Backed Chickadee. I think you can see why they have that name. They’re pretty easy to identify. This picture was taken in [...]
Posted in chickadee on Jan 23rd, 2010
The birdfeeder experiment is going well.
Posted in chickadee on Nov 7th, 2009
California has a few signs of fall. Some leaves fall, some leaves change color.
Posted in chickadee, tyrant flycatcher on May 17th, 2009
I went to the marine preserve this weekend, and the place was filled with babies!!! I found a bush filled with baby flycatchers and sat taking pictures of them for 30 minutes. I finally captured some good pictures. This is a dusky flycatcher. Below is a gray flycatcher. This baby was very curious and too [...]
Things have been very hectic, lately, so I haven’t been able to take as many pictures. Last week it also rained the entire weekend, which caused the plants to turn a lovely shade of bright green, but prevented me from going birding. The cockatiels are doing well. Yesterday I put the nest boxes on the [...]